[concerned about politics]

But, their mom probably doesn't read Beowulf in the original Old English, either...

So? How will that prepare them for normal society and job searches? That's a waste of time. Push that junk aside, and move onto the important things. Geeez. Get a grip!

[countess]

Now I can see why you're so defensive.

[aristeides]

I don't agree with that at all. The German concept of providing Bildung, general education, seems to me to make a lot more sense. Maybe the recipients of such education will not advance as far as people who receive a more utilitarian education. But so what? The most prestigious jobs are really pretty empty, and the people I see who have them are, for the most part, pretty unfulfilled.

Get a decent education, get a decent job that gives you an adequate living and is reasonably useful to the society, and I think that's enough. A real education will certainly help you to raise properly any children that you may have.