I remember reading, a number of years ago, an exchange in which somebody said, “No, we should be shifting all our attention in education, particularly in higher education, to training people. Let's get out of teaching Shakespeare and Wordsworth. Why do we need to know Roman history? It's the age of technology. That's where the future is, and it's a waste of taxpayer money to be funding universities to do that.”
Someone else wrote in to this exchange going on in the newspaper and said, “No, in a time of rapid change, you teach the things that don't change. Social sciences and humanities take us into areas where....” Of course, there are new developments and new knowledge being uncovered. However, they're the fundamentals of a democracy. They're fundamental and, as I said, the backbone of a liberal democracy—small-l liberal, I hasten to add.