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Learning to be human, Conclusion - Coggle Diagram
Learning to be human
Washington Post Jeff Guo account on how to maximise cultural consumption
Watches TV on fast forward
Encapsulates how technology has allowed people to accelerate pace of daily routines
Is Faster always better when it comes to art?
In conversation with at Aspen Ideas Festival, Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard Uni and cultural critic Leon Wieseltier agreed true study and appreciation of humanities is rooted in slowness
Studying humanities is vital to teach us how to be human
At end of WW2, 11% of students in us chose to major humanities
Rose to 17% in 1960s
Now at 6%
Students increasingly drawn to vocational majors (business, medicine etc)
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Helps to widen world
Teach empathy for others
History teaches context of choices made
Philosophy teaches morality
Theatre, lit and film put students in mindset of others
Conclusion
As more things become quantifiable
Not everything can be reduced to a data point
Experiences in life cannot be numerically measured
Number of dollars per visitor a exhibition costs etc