Exactly right Maggie! His textbooks were for the masses and not purely for economics majors. There should be a required "block of knowledge" in both high school and college. In college, instead of taking some physics course you will never use, a course should be developed about physics using the Feynman Lectures. A stydy of Social Science using Bronowski's "Ascent of Man" instead of dry statistical data. Use Samuelson of course in Economics.
You need detailed studies in your major but everyone needs the "body of knowledge" just to be a better functioning person. Anyway......
Paul Samuelson........Great man and left a work for the ages.