Why Study Humanities in 60 Seconds

Michael Elliott (Professor of English and American Studies, Emory College) has one minute to explain the importance of the humanities.

See what Emory is doing in the humanities at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (http://chi.emory.edu/index.html).

For more information on Professor Elliott, see http://english.emory.edu/people/faculty/elliott.htm

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[ben5017]

Go into massive debt for no job ... your money ahead to just go to McDonalds!

[BandofSorensons]

@thehumandartboard So why is it that you think adults have lost their humanity? I mean they are still humans aren't they, they don't turn into turnips or robots or chickens. Do you mean to say that they don't act like humans or that they are not fulfilling the full potential of their human nature? I think I could support that position. I don't think anyone needs to study the humanities either way. The problem is an ethical one that needs no theoretical explanation: people love the wrong things.

[thehumandartboard]

@BandofSorensons

By the time adult life is reached, the average one has lost their humanity, and thus needs to be reminded of it...but not by this uncaring douchebag. Children don't need to study humanities, they are perhaps the only humans left on earth, and we start to destroy them at the earliest age possible.

[BandofSorensons]

Why study humanities: So this guy can have a job. You don't need to formally study philosophy or literature to recognize that there are problems before the country and the world as a whole. You certainly don't need to do so formally, as in pay money for a degree in a humanities field. Further doing so wouldn't eve provide a slight inkling of what one might be able to call an answer. So the humanities don't give answers they just raise obvious questions that didn't need asking. That's obsolete!