Many "know" humanities as exotic, marginalized, decorative-only -- and have also learned that one never uses any, never cites any apropos of anything.
Even on Heather's site here, please count how often any citations of any novels, memoirs, films, songs, or other arts.
If we're honest, more of us would feel like Doctor Zhivago in "The Forest Brotherhood" chapter where, abducted by a partisan group and forced to serve as its doctor, he's also forced continuously to hear nothing but the banalities of slogans, abstractions, and other wonk language of that time.
You often generalize to all schools. My granddaughter recently told me "I still take humanities," when I asked her if she knew what it was.
Let's measure in application, Kathy.
Many "know" humanities as exotic, marginalized, decorative-only -- and have also learned that one never uses any, never cites any apropos of anything.
Even on Heather's site here, please count how often any citations of any novels, memoirs, films, songs, or other arts.
If we're honest, more of us would feel like Doctor Zhivago in "The Forest Brotherhood" chapter where, abducted by a partisan group and forced to serve as its doctor, he's also forced continuously to hear nothing but the banalities of slogans, abstractions, and other wonk language of that time.