And now we are all smarter because of it.

First, author Alain-de-botton, whose latest book is called Religion for Athiests was recently interviewed by Metro, a UK magazine and was asked whether he had much in common with Harry Styles, to which he replied with this request:

My plan is to shut the Arts Council and get people such as Harry Styles to go on television and recommend to everyone they read Proust and Hegel, which would achieve more in five minutes than the Arts Council achieves year in, year out. David Beckham could do Aristotle and Plato.

Then added this:

In an ideal world Harry Styles would be teaching his 10million Twitter followers a little more about Greek philosophy.

Which made it to the front of the newspaper:

And then Harry obliged: