The Classics Bring Us Face-To-Face With Greatness

"The purpose of studying literature is to become better. As we read we experience despair, heartache, tragedy -- we learn to recognize what causes them and avoid it or cope with it in our own lives. As we study the characters, real or fictional, in the classics, we are inspired by greatness, which is the first step to becoming great ourselves...Who we are changes as we set higher and higher standards of what life is about and what we are here to accomplish."

A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille