" They address the questions that are proper to us, not as this or that kind of specialist, this or that kind of professional, but as individuals as such—the very questions we are apt to ask when we look up from our work and think about our lives. Questions of love, death, family, morality, time, truth, God, and everything else within the wide, starred universe of human experience. "

― William Deresiewicz , Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life