"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
An education without the humanities prepares one only for servile occupations.On the other hand, remember the old joke:
Una educación sin humanidades prepara sólo para los oficios serviles.
Q. What did the liberal arts graduate say to the engineering graduate?
A. Would you like fries with that?