Role of Humanities, in School and Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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the major value of a college curriculum, and the reason an undergraduate degree is still preferable to a random menu of massive online open courses, is the opportunity it offers students through a variety of disciplines and the different skills specific to each
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most colleges do not view humanities and sciences as in competition with each other. Today’s students need to develop the capacity for open-ended inquiry cultivated by the liberal arts, and also the problem-solving skills associated with science and technology.
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a major factor that’s reshaped humanities education since 1970, when the decline began: postmodernism.
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