" Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to education lay through great books. No man was educated unless he was acquainted with the masterpieces of his tradition. There never was very much doubt in anybody’s mind about which the masterpieces were. They were the books that had endured and that the common voice of mankind called the finest creations, in writing, of the Western mind. "

― Robert Maynard Hutchins , The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education (Great Books Of The Western World, #1)