Programs in continuing education. For humanities' sake

✍ Scribed by Milton R. Stern

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 683 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-1912
• DOI: 10.1002/chp.4760070414

✦ Synopsis

he humanities need no more justification T than the MohawkValley. The humanities make you think about.. .and feel about.. .everything. A few years ago, the late John Chewer wrote, ' I . . .without literature.. ,we would have n o knowledge of the meaning of love. Literature is the only history we possess of this overwhelming sentiment." Literature, history, classics, philosophy. Anthropology?. . . psychology?. . . Ah, but in this article, also, I'm not going to redefine the humanities-that's a talk better left to our colleagues, happily tenured on the playing fields of the Lord, the liberal arts professoriate. The discussion on definition, I think, was closed some years ago by the English historian, C. V. Wedgwood, when she said, with epigrammatic finality, "History is an art like any other science." In a time like ours, what can the humanities do for us? And how may we persuade our stu-