Close to marking 40 years afloat, and celebrating the second year of its newest makeover and re-naming, the Aegean Odyssey is not for the tattooed masses nor the jewels-by-Harry-Winston crowd. Its passengers love something you cannot purchase or wear — knowledge....The passengers can’t always count on laughing during their pre-tour lectures, but the people booking cruises on Voyages to Antiquity are assured of authoritative presentations followed by educational, even fascinating, visits to places where Western civilizations began and prospered, struggled, and sometimes were extinguished by ruthless competitors. [emphasis mine]I love that first quote - not a definition of knowledge exactly, but a detaching of it from things it's sometimes conflated with (major in the right 'practical' subject, and you'll rake in the money, etc.) And I like that the article acknowledges that most audiences expect humor in lectures, even when it's incongruous with the subject matter.
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