From the NY Times in response to an article about college studies in Humanities: You said it yourself in the article: historical knowledge, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning. All indispensable elements of a well-rounded education in a free society if it wishes to remain free. Imagine the world without historians, without artists, without those who explore human behaviour in all its quirky manifestations: it would be a monochromatic Fritz Lang nightmare of wheels, weapons and numbers, doomed to blind and perpetual redundancy. What the humanities has to offer is *understanding*, and we need more of this, not less. — jas, Languedoc Roussillon
