The humanities shouldn’t have anything to prove, but these days they certainly do.
You sure don’t hear Obama or the education “reform” (privatization) technocrats talk about anything but math and science and tests for same.
All the more reason to welcome the New School’s February 20 program: Speaking for the Humanities. It’s held to coincide with the publication of Fordham U Press’s The Humanities and Public Life.
Surely studying the arts is a worthy aim in itself, but if you needed further means-to-an-end justification for their curriculum presence, study after study has of course shown the way that arts education increases students’ abilities to learn in all subject areas.