David Foster Wallace on the True Value of Liberal Arts Education

On May 21, 2005, David Foster Wallace delivered his legendary Kenyon College commencement address – the only public talk he ever gave on his views of life – in which he argues:

I submit that this is what the real, no-bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

Read more, and listen to the original recording, [here][2].

[2]: http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/