I would not consider the military more important than artistic pursuits. Art influences all things in the word, from the shade of clothing on your back from season to season, to the colour you paint your home. The books people enjoy, the songs on the radio. Without it there would be stark, bare gaps in people's lives and their enjoyment of them.

[Not that... police and firefighters aren't important, but the dismissal of something that threads through everyone's lives so deeply irks him.]

But you are here, at Recolle university, and what you choose to study is up to you.