You know in a world where the hard sciences rule, everything is put on practicallity and nothing on the ideal. For the record I do think a nation needs the hard sciences, especially in the world we have today, but I think we also over-emphasize it. One thing the Jesuits used to teach was the ideal education, where a man studies not for practicallity but for the ideal study of mankind and his condition. That is why a "liberal education" heavy on philosophy, theology, Greek and Latin still remains for me to this day the ideal and how I would want my sons taught. Under this education men would not only be given lessons in Latin, Greek, and math but also given the values of a religious education, not only in the classroom but how one lives one life. That in my opinion is education of the "whole man."
Also this would extend to the area of sports, since a physical education heavy on teamwork, cooperation, and physical health rounds out the whole man. This is all against the ideal values of liberalism which puts the ideals at individualism, at materialism, at practicallity, etc.