True "liberal learning" often occurs far from our campuses and direct influence. The Ladakhi, a non-western culture located between Tibet, China, and Pakistan, passed on "liberal learning" as part of its communal experience. The Ladakhis were wealthy, self-sufficient, lived in roomy houses, had zero "gross national product," no crime, and much leisure. After other cultures converged on the Ladakhis, many changes took place. Western schools were built with traditional western curricula. The Ladakhi children could no longer survive in their culture after being educated in these western values, showing the centrality of experience to a liberal education. The best education is liberalizing and distinctions made between "liberal arts" and "applied arts" are very likely false. The job of educators is to help illuminate how real life experiences have already been shaped into liberal arts. The job in experiential education is to weld experiential learning options onto liberal arts programs showing the symbolic relationship between liberal learning and human experience. (SM)