TheClassicist

Matt Neuburg describes what a good education produces, and why it may be more relevant and important than a focused career-oriented course of study:

A Classicist is an academic — someone who enjoys the exchange of knowledge, who likes to spend time studying and researching information in libraries, who likes considering and discussing ideas.
A Classicist is a writer — able to edit his own and others' writing to a very high standard of clarity and formality, able to write at all technical levels.
A Classicist is a teacher — who can understand a topic and then explain it to others in an original, exciting way, a dynamic public speaker, someone who can motivate others, who can help them become better writers and better thinkers.
A Classicist is a language-learner — after you've learned Ancient Greek and Latin (plus several modern languages), computer languages look pretty trivial!

It's all about the difference between training and learning ...

(see also PullPush (27 Mar 2001), PursuitOfExcellence (22 Feb 2002), PartingAdvice (21 Jun 2002), LiberalArts (13 Mar 2003), PluralOfVirus (28 Aug 2004), ... )

Is there anything more in professional life than aspiring to WALTness? (Or is it WALThood?) – ANS