Another point that Zakaria makes is that liberal education isn’t always available to everyone today compared to the past due to its high price point or personal financial issues. Zakaria goes further by explaining a viewpoint from Benjamin Franklin, as well as Thomas Jefferson.  Their opinions that liberal education should be economically accessible to the society.  Zakaria also points out that an economic problem of inflation has been increasing at a dramatic rate since the 1960’s making it difficult to justify liberal education.  Finally, Zakaria proposes a solution found in MOOC’s.

The problem with a liberal education is that it is no longer appreciated the way that it used to be. In the 50’s and 60’s in America, a liberal education was very important to a lot of people. However, once the 70’s hit, and throughout the last 40 years, the views on a liberal educaton have changed completely. Not everyone has access to a liberal education because of financial inequality. 

Towards the end of the book, Zakaria proposed a solution to the cost problem. His idea was MOOCs, which stands for massive online open courses. By implementing this, it would decrease the cost that a university has to spend on the professors, which would allow a lot more people to afford it. Zakaria quotes Richard Levin, “the greatest impact of MOOCs will be in the developing world, where it will be possible for millions to get educated who simply would not have otherwise” (Zakaria 132).