I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. Ralph Waldo Emerson Hitch your wagon to a star.