A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.
Stefan ColliniTags: education-system humanities
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.
Stefan ColliniTags: education education-system humanities
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.
Stefan ColliniTags: education education-system humanities
In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too difficult, therefore it's the classics that are to blame. Today the student asserts his incapacity as a privilege. I can't learn it, so there is something wrong with it. And there is something especially wrong with the bad teacher who wants to teach it. There are no more criteria, Mr. Zuckerman, only opinions.
Philip RothTags: education college humanities
I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives.
Damon HorowitzTags: perspective technology industry careers humanities career-ladder advanced-degrees ph-d-s
It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.
Damon HorowitzTags: education passion intellect industry careers humanities
Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.
Lee SiegelTags: literature humanities
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