New York Times columnist Frank Bruni talks about the role his experience in literature classes has played in shaping him as a citizen.
As he puts it of one memorable lecture, “She demonstrated the rewards of close attention. And the way she did this — her eyes wild with fervor, her body aquiver with delight — was an encouragement of passion and a validation of the pleasure to be wrung from art. It informed all my reading from then on. It colored the way I listened to people and even watched TV.
It transformed me.”
See the whole column at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/opinion/frank-bruni-higher-education-liberal-arts-and-shakespeare.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0