A couple of gems to encourage you to read the rest of the article:
My first minor setback occurred during my freshman year, when the morons on Princeton’s English faculty inexplicably failed to be dazzled by my freshman essay. (“You show a hint of promise, but you need to work much harder on your writing.”) …
Until that point, I had never really appreciated what a liberal education is all about. An essayist inThe Chronicle has put it this way: “A liberal-arts education … is about the recognition, ultimately, of how little one really knows, or can know. A liberal-arts education, most of all, fights unmerited pride by asking students to recognize the smallness of their ambitions in the context of human history ….”
Head over to the Chronicle of Higher Education to read this wonderful piece about the need for humility in the Academy.
Also, shout out to liberal-arts education.