All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems. - GRE Issue 7

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All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems. - GRE Issue 7

I agree that it would serve the interests of all nations to establish a global university for the purpose of solving the world's most persistent social problems. Nevertheless, such a university poses certain risks which all participating nations must be careful to minimize--or risk defeating the university's purpose.

One compelling argument in favor of a global university has to do with the fact that its faculty and students would bring diverse cultural and educational perspectives to the problems they seek to solve. It seems to me that nations can only benefit from a global university whe...

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Sentence: The Soviet lesson provides an important caveat to administrators of a global university: Significant progress in solving pressing social problems requires an open mind to all sound ideas, approaches, and theories---krespective of the ideologies of their proponents.
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