The Importance of Biography

Inkwell has a great post this morning:

New York Times columnist David Brooks has made a list of things a student can do to get a good education, even if she is forced to attend an inadequate school such as Harvard.

Here is my favorite suggestion:

“Take a course on ancient Greece. For 2,500 years, educators knew that the core of their mission was to bring students into contact with heroes like Pericles, Socrates and Leonidas. 'No habit is so important to acquire,' Aristotle wrote, as the ability 'to delight in fine characters and noble actions.' Alfred North Whitehead agreed, saying, 'Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness.'

I'd love to be able to read that column, but I'm not a Times Select subscriber, and at $50 a year (I think that's the charge), I never will be. I'd rather give $50 to Larry Flynt (alright, I'm exaggerating a little . . . but just a little).