To Be or Not To Be?

I was asked by a student,"Why do I need to learn things that have no practical use?" Many young people ask the same question. Yes, why? If the modern world mainly revolves around money, profit, material achievements, why "waste" time and energy learning about literature, philosophy, geography, nature etc.?
A seed that remains "a seed" has the potential of becoming a tree. It can survive as a seed or it can be what it was created to be. Surviving and living: these are the two possible choices that human beings have to make throughout their lives.

To Be (what one can be) or Not To Be? (remaining in a latent state of possibility). Shakespeare was right. This is truly the question!