A Bull Market in the Humanities

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Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.

We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
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from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
Max Beauroyre and added
The humanities are our essential fortification as we defend ourselves against an entirely utilitarian engineering mind-set. They help us celebrate and keep sacred what we don’t know.
from The Business Romantic by Tim Leberecht
juarry added
The education of the future is going to be an education in sensory perception, and therefore an education in the humanities—especially in the arts—because artistic training is training in how to see, how to perceive, and how to communicate. Even students in business schools will benefit from this kind of training (my colleague Andreas Widmer teache... See more
Bradley McDevitt added
Art saves lives

from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia