A classical education opens the path to fame and riches for you.
You think we are joking?
Have a look at the "classical careers" of these more or less famous people who were all trained in Greek and Latin.
Willamette University's own Classics graduates may not be rich and famous yet (after all, our Classics program was only re-started in 1998), but they are all doing quite well.
Classical Careers
L. Jane Addams
Social activist, Born: September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, IL, Died: May 31, 1935 in Chicago, IL
Rita Mae Brown
Novelist, poet, screenwriter, and activist, Born: November 28, 1944, in Hanover, Pennsylvania
Willa Cather
Author, Born: December 7, 1873 near Winchester, VA, Died: April 24, 1947 in New York, NY
Raymond Chandler
Author & screenwriter, Born: August 28, 1888 in Chicago, IL, Died: March 26, 1959 in La Jolla, CA
Henry Roe Cloud
Native American educator and activist, Born: December 28, 1884 on the Winnebago Reservation in Northeast Nebraska, Died: February 9, 1950 in Siletz, Oregon
Bing Crosby
Harry "Bing" Crosby, Popular singer & actor, Born: May 3, 1903 in Tacoma, WA, Died: October 14, 1977 near Madrid, Spain
W.E.B. DuBois
Sociologist and social activist, Born: February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, MA, Died: August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana
Karl Marx
Journalist, political economist, philosopher, Born: May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany, Died: March 14, 1883 in London
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Born: October 15, 1844 in Röcken, Prussian Province of Saxony, Germany, Died: August 25, 1900 in Weimar, Germany
Dorothy L. Sayers
British author, translator, and Christian humanist., British author, translator, and Christian humanist., Born: June 13, 1893 in Oxford, UK, Died: August 28, 1957 in Witham, Essex, UK
Carl Schurz
German-American revolutionary, journalist, and politician, Born: March 2, 1829 in Liblar near Cologne, Germany, Died: May 14, 1906 in New York, NY
J. R. R. Tolkien
Author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Born: January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Died: September 2, 1973 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Ted Turner
Billionaire philanthropist, cattle breeder, owner of a restaurant chain, and ex-media mogul, Born: November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, OH