{"id":503,"date":"2018-03-24T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=503"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:17:04","slug":"how-humanities-can-help-fix-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2018\/03\/24\/how-humanities-can-help-fix-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Humanities Can Help Fix the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"content-item__title\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #333399;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/How-Humanities-Can-Help-Fix\/237955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Humanities Can Help Fix the World<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/germanic.ucla.edu\/person\/john-mccumber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John McCumber<\/a><\/span> in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/?cid=UCHETOPNAV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><\/a><\/span> on the importance of the humanities.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Where will students learn about racism, about &#8220;what something evil actually is, or why it is evil&#8221;? he asks.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Not in their marketing, economics, or STEM courses. Highly quantified disciplines like those cannot teach about things like racial or religious prejudice. To learn what anti-Semitism and racism are, students must turn to history and sociology courses. To learn why they are evil and how to avoid them, they must turn to the humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In particular, it is the humanities that teach us how not to be racists, by showing us how to open ourselves up to what is different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">&#8211;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>We must teach the humanities, because humanity depends on it:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">For humanity doesn\u2019t just exist; it has to be created, over and over again. If our violent history shows anything, it is that we are not born with an innate sympathy for, or understanding of, all humankind; and without those, &#8220;humanity&#8221; is just a word. 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