The Lost Value of Becoming Human In an era where AI's speed has made many skills obsolete, universities and boardrooms are grappling with a question: what good will that do you?
This crisis of purpose has been brewing for decades, but its roots go back to the time when classical education was still a cornerstone of higher learning.
When The Atlantic was founded in 1857, Latin and Greek were the dominant languages of education. Students couldn't get into college without them, and once there, they'd likely study little else.