Harvard Bound? Chin Up? by David Brooks appeared in the March 2, 2006 edition of the New York Times.
If you do everything on this list, you'll get a great education:
Read Reinhold Niebuhr
Read Plato's "Gorgias"
Take a course on ancient Greece
Learn a foreign language
Spend a year abroad
Take a course in neuroscience
Take a course in statistics
forget about your career for once in your life