In Defense of a Liberal Education Lecture: Extra Credit This lecture was based upon the importance of a college liberal education. The speaker of this speech was Fareed Zakaria, CNN television host of Fareed Zakaria Gps. Zakaria began his speech with an introduction about himself and his view on the “American Dream”. He states that “America seemed like this city on the hills, its where the future was being invented, particularly California.” Zakaria then begins to proceed inform the audience about his childhood in India during the 1970’s, where he describes his parent’s views on how importance getting a science or engineering education was. However, once he took his first college history course, he had a sense of happiness. Zakaria emphasis
