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Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

New Books in Higher Education

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The Absurdity of CS Plus Humanities

I think what you're saying, I mean, about the theme, it's almost like humanities is some like weird little idiosyncratic interest, you know, like collecting crystals. It's just this funny thing that a few people still do. As opposed to what it should be in my view, which is the center of a college education. And computers don't help you answer that question. Because those are questions of value, they're not questions of fact.

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