This chapter is concerned with the symbiotic link between people and education. It takes an expansive view of the Humanities so that the Humanities are not only conceptualised as subject material for research and teaching. Instead, it suggests that the Humanities must also be understood in terms of the need to treat people within Higher Education systems (academics, students, administrators, support workers) as fully human. The same goes for all institutional settings and contexts, so that the Humanities are not just some abstract set of conceptualisations that we teach, but something that we also practise. The chapter highlights many of the self-defeating implications and consequences that emerge when students, academics, and others, in neoliberal systems of Higher Education, attempt to rise to what is expected of them in terms of work and productivity. It suggests that when we conform to a neoliberal system of values in Higher Education the quality of teaching and research is diminished. In devaluing the way knowledge is produced and devaluing those producing knowledge, we lose sight of what is genuinely worthy of our time and attention.