[gshubert17]

I got a Master's degree from St. Johns liberal arts program in my 50s, in part to complement a Master's degree in computer science from three decades earlier, together to help me be a better teacher of high school computing.

For me, the three-decade interval gave me work and life experience which prepared me to read and discuss the Great Books. (The graduate program's list is similar to the undergraduate list, if a bit shorter.) The authors and works we read at St. Johns come from a wide range of contexts with different assumptions than ours, which made them both such a challenge and a reward to study.

There are other "Great Books" programs, including The Catherine Project, https://catherineproject.org/, which give opportunities to read and discuss many of these important works.