i think you are a kindred spirit of mine! so happy to have found you! i agree with you whole-heartedly... i do get dismayed when i see posts all about how students in college should get degrees in engineering and such because they will more easily have jobs when they come out... i get that, but there is more to being educated... i am a homeschooler who has tried my darnedest to give my boys a classical education... a liberal arts education...
from the beginning i introduced them to poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson, Ogden Nash, Milnes, and many others... all the Mother Goose Rhymes, for certain... they memorized a plethora of poems including Jabberwocky, The Raven, Paul Revere's Ride... i even taught a Children's Poetry workshop several times a year for homeschooled kids... today my sons so easily read the Greeks and the Romans... we are currently reading Dante's The Divine Comedy and The Aeneid...
i think it is important to educate the whole man... we study Latin, Logic, Mathematics, Geomety, World History, art and music... this is the type of education that some of our Founding Fathers received, and Thomas Jefferson is my inspiration in teaching my sons... i want them to truly be free thinkers and life-long learners... my goal has always been that their education touches on all three aspects of being human: the mind/intellect, the soul/heart and the physical/hands...
honestly, i do not care what they end up doing professionally... they will likely do more than one thing in their lifetimes... i can see one perhaps joining the Coast Guard for a time, then teaching online writing courses and literature while raising horses and being a worship leader at church... and the other perhaps being a theater actor and chef... but whatever may come, they will be able to draw upon the many different aspects of their education... life is more than what is practical... utilitarian...
i know i have rambled, but it is nice to have found you :)
It’s OK. It’s part of what I call the inner life. People need one for times when the outer life lets you down.