"We should look to culture as a storehouse of useful ideas about how to face our most pressing personal and professional issues … It should be the job of a university education to tease out the therapeutic and illuminative aspects of culture, so that we emerge from a period of study as slightly less disturbed, selfish and blinkered human beings. Such a transformation benefits not only the economy but also our friends, children and spouses."
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Wall Street JournalALAIN DE BOTTON