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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of a Humanistic Education
The ideal of a humanistic education was meant for prospective leaders. It didn't really include anything that we would call science, arguably. And so that was the justification for why you would have this broad education. But today we have more of an ideal of universal education and put less emphasis on it.
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