Hmm

What do we want of a literary education anyway? Scholarship and judgement of the highest kind for a few. And the few are no problem. But for those of unspecialized general intelligence who are the proper subjects of a humanist education? We expect a literary education to expand their range of human awareness and sympathy; to enlarge their imagination beyond the limits of their own class and country; to show them that our problems and obsessions are part of a larger pattern of human experience, and assume a new meaning within the larger pattern. I should feel suspicious of the human competence of a leader or administrator who had not had at least a little of that sort of education. But it need not have made him a literary critic or historian, or an editor, or an emender of Shakespearean texts.

- Graham Hough, as cited in An Introduction to Philosophy to Education.