how humanities important in your lives?

answers1: James B. Conant, the founding president of the University of
Chicago put it like this: "Humanities education is not for making a
living; it is for making a life." <br>
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Sad to say, this concept is in danger of getting lost now that
everyone is desperate to get a college degree that will qualify them
for a job. Of course that is important, but so is learning something
about how we got to where we are now (history), what people in the
past have said about life (literature) and how else they expressed
themselves (music, visual arts, sculpture.) <br>
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These studies may not guarantee anyone a job, but without them, our
lives are sadly impoverished. <br>
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You might guess that I was a humanities major in college; English
Literature and Writing with a minor in Psychology. <br>
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Oddly enough, I managed to get a job as a newspaper reporter, from
which I retired a couple of decades ago. It definitely paid the
mortgage -- also bought the food, fed the kids, and kept us in a
reasonably decent lifestyle.