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The Purpose of a Deep Humanities Education
The purpose of a true humanities education is to transmit the difficult to acquire knowledge that actually allows people to become wise enough. "Without a deep humanities education all of that disappears because it has to be transmitted explicitly and so that was the proper role of the universities for years" He says there isn't anything you can do to empower people more effectively than to teach them how to be deeply literate and historically knowledgeable. 'I always thought there was a value in a multi choice test and key dates generals'