So the discussion, on a different forum category, of whether high school students should be required to read Shakespeare generated a lot of vigorous discussion. I feel that there has always been two views of education, that it is worthwhile in and of itself or as vocational training. It seems to me that over the last ten years or so, at least here in America, the balance has shifted too far towards the latter. This as an introduction to this quote found in the latest issue of Scientific American.