How to make a life

Postman states in The End of Education (p. x) that education should be about
"how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living." What does
Postman mean by this comment, and how could the Humanities fit into such a concept of
what an education should do for an individual, according to Postman and Edmunson?
Also, what similarities do you see between Postman and Edmunson's view of the
purpose of education and the purpose of the Humanities as originally conceived by the
Greeks and Romans and re-discovered by the Renaissance