The Great Skills

The Great Books is a compelling idea, but how about a Great Books for the non-Western canon?

And the critical skills to arise from a Great Books education? Critical Thinking and Analysis. Communication. Maybe even the beginning of Self-Knowledge.

And let's add to that "The Great Skills":

1. Grow your own
2. Fix it when it's broken
3. Think your way through any problem (abstract what you know)
4. Cooperate with others
5. Fight

The first two may fall under the heading 'Manage your internal affairs (Keep a sound ship)'.
The last two may fall under the heading 'Manage your external affairs (Think like a citizen)'.
And the 3rd point -- "Think your way through any problem" -- bridges the internal and external.