Focusing on skills and skill sets rather than focusing on the humanities is in great part the reason for the downfall of education. Graduating students as cogs in a wheel means they will never get out of being cogs and will preserve the status quo. Innovation requires other tools – including critical thinking and thinking outside the – well – wheel. Skills ensured my place in the wheel in this brave new world. The humanities – especially literature and history – ensured my place as a human being in a world that sees people as cogs.