The Advantage of a Classical Education?

The conclusion of an OpEd item in the Hindu:

Of course education should prepare people for employment. Of course it is distressing when young people find that the job market is dire. They might just be able to raise a smile at a wry remark made in the early 1950s by the late Sir Robert Wood, a classicist who was Principal of the University College (now University) of Southampton. “The advantage of a classical education”, he said, “is that it teaches you to do without the money it makes you unable to acquire”. Classicists have always been eminently employable (and are generally good at expressing themselves clearly without jargon), but he was making a real point about the purpose of education.

• via The Hindu : Columns / Bill Kirkman : Cambridge Letter: Changing standards.

… fwiw, all money aside, I think the real advantage of a Classical education is that it gives your mind much more interesting things to think about than you likely will get in most jobs you end up having …