What is Literature

The subjects we study at school can be divided roughly into two groups--the sciences and the arts. The sciences include mathematics, geography, chemistry, physics, and so on. Among the arts are drawing, painting, modelling, needlework, drama, music, literature. The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
Is this really true ? If we take an average day in the life of the average man we seem to see very little evidence of concern with the s…