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How about, then, Jon, schools teach not so much humanities, as others in the room?

That is, have everyone introduce themselves by written essays, citing specifics as to who they are by the styles of food-clothing-shelter they inhabit. Shelter could include building insides (interior design), as well as landscapes outside, and modes of travel in those landscapes.

Everyone read everyone's, then discuss. Then rewrite, now quoting others in the room with tastes or circumstances similar to one's own. Name the others with generosity towards their specificity.

This gambit may go on, in levels of citing others (naming persons for their similar issues across the campus, or naming instructors for theirs -- from books they have written or lectures they have given.

It may go on, as in Jews referring to Palestinians as individuals. Japanese citing Koreans or Chinese as individuals. Inner city black citing white youth on the prairie.

After students get very good at seeing others, crediting them generously, gambit may open up to humanities "others" love.

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