The false promises of higher education (Bryan Caplan, Atlantic)
Universities, born in the Middle Ages, appear to have out-lived their usefulness.
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12, 2017
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12, 2017
English study and medical training: what the literature tells us (Mark Abadi, Business Insider)
A healthy knowledge of English enhances medical learning.
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12, 2017
Humanities education adapts technology for today and tomorrow (Harry Begg, Washington Examiner)
Humanities education for the New Industrial Age.
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11, 2017
Philosophy for (and of) science (Subrena E Smith, Aeon)
Modern science has its roots, historical and conceptual, in philosophy.
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11, 2017
On American reading, technology, and intellectual life
How American society limits our reading and concentration, also by technology.
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11, 2017
The dawn and dusk of the humanities (Marilynne Robinson, NY Review of Books)
Do the humanities exhaust themselves in utility?
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11, 2017
The joy of writing (Sirin Pilay, Harvard Heath Blog)
Writing may provide a release to anxiety.
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11, 2017
How valuable are the humanities? (Carolyn Gregoire, Huffington Post)
The humanities are valuable in all professions.
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10, 2017
The humanities and windows of vision (Gerald Greenberg, Washington Post)
The humanities open up new perspectives on oneself and others.
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10, 2017
Allowing the crowd to guide the ethical path, in AI (Futurism)
Can the crowd make ethical decisions better than the individual?