Well said. Here we see some of the reasons why the political elites who control our universities don't want to give their students the chance to read the "Great Books." Because if they did, they might start getting ideas and thinking for themselves. And that would interfere with the process of brainwashing them to be good, loyal little leftists.
Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Livy, Homer, Virgil, Augustine, are all dangerous books. No matter how much you spin and twist them, they have a way of speaking for themselves and making you think. So let's substitute a bunch of multicultural trash and lightweight novels instead.
An education steeped in the classics - preferably in the original languages - is the foundation for an appreciation of human nature. Even Shakespeare isn't given much time - if indeed his works are given any at all - in modern academia. Few wrote so well of the human condition than he.