True education has value in and of itself, a value that leads to self-actualization and that cannot be measured with standardized tests. Through education, and especially through studying the humanities, we learn what happiness is and how to become our best selves. As University of Virginia philosophy professor Talbot Brewer points out in his excellent essay, “The Coup That Failed: How the Near-Sacking of a University President Exposed the Fault Lines of American Higher Education” (Hedgehog Review, Summer 2014), “The humanities are…a gateway to and instigator of a life...