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If liberal education is to survive, if its priceless effort of turning hearts and minds toward the good and the true is to continue, then self-governed citizens must maintain the cultural conditions that foster liberal education. America is a land of liberty where liberal education has long prospered. Without such liberty, the very enterprise of liberal education in America may be imperiled. The starting place for any maintenance of American liberty is the study of the American Heritage, a necessary and practical duty for any self-governed member of a free society. Finally, there is nothing more practical than understanding the world in which one lives and knowing how to distinguish that which is timeless from the passing fads and fashions of the day. Perhaps C.S. Lewis expressed this notion best in his splendid essay \"Learning in War-Time\": \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"We need intimate knowledge of the past. 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