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  • I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

    Philosophy   Issues   Law  
  • The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

    "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.
  • The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

    Art   Math   Humanity  
    Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.159, Penguin
  • I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

  • America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

    Art   America   Humanity  
  • I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

  • Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

    Art   Stars   Optimistic  
    Barack Obama's Statment on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 27, 2015.
  • The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

  • I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

    Art   College   Humanity  
  • The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

    Art   Lying   Humanity  
    Reagan, Ronald (1989). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987”, p.682, Best Books on
  • Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal arts and humanities have fallen out of favor in a culture that equates education with training.

    Art   People   Humanity  
    "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.
  • A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

    Media   America   Impact  
    Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.9, Vintage
  • As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

    "The Adventures of Augie March". Book by Saul Bellow. Chapter 6, 1953.
  • Art should be created for life, not for the museum

    Life   Art   Museums  
  • I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  • I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

    Mother   Stars   Father  
    Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.
  • The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

  • The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.

    Art   Struggle   People  
  • The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

  • The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

  • We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

    Self   Humanity   Brain  
    Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.62, Penguin
  • The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

    Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.470, Transaction Publishers
  • I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

  • At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

  • The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

    Humanity   Needs   Today  
  • Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

  • The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

    Names   Humanity   Should  
    "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.
  • I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

    Art   Believe   Thinking  
  • Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

    Art   Carpe Diem   People  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1022, Best Books on
  • Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

    Lisa Randall (2012). “Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe”, p.398, Random House
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