{"quotes":[{"text":"The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.","author":"Ken Robinson","tags":["student","equal","humanities "],"id":4874,"author_id":"Ken+Robinson"},{"text":"What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on human values and principles should be central to everything that goes on in universities, not just to the study of Rembrandt or Rimbaud.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["2010","2010-uk-student-protests","academia","arthur-rimbaud","humanities","imagination","justice","margaret-thatcher","public-university","radical-politics","radicalism","reactionary-politics","rembrandt","tradition","tuition-fees-uk","university"],"id":32277,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"},{"text":"Let's always try to paint the truth ... Our art must be made to mean something.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","art-and-artists","artist","arts-and-humanities","artsy","artwork","creative-people","creativity","gadfly","goals","humanities","idealism","inspirational","meaning","meaning-of-art","motivational","priorities","purpose","search-for-truth","truth"],"id":43065,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Merlin seeks assistance from Pigwiggen, the only one of Arthur's knights who is also a fairy, and they unite their enchantments to move the British Court to Turkestan. Lively end to Act One.","author":"Davies Robertson","tags":["art","gibberish","hilarious","humanities","lyre-of-orpheus"],"id":52808,"author_id":"Davies+Robertson"},{"text":"The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible in which our evolving notions of what it means to be fully human are put to the test; they teach us, incrementally, endlessly, not what to do, but how to be. Their method is confrontational, their domain unlimited, their 'product' not truth but the reasoned search for truth, their 'success' something very much like Frost's momentary stay against confusion.","author":"Mark Slouka","tags":["essays","humanities","humanity","life","truth"],"id":58811,"author_id":"Mark+Slouka"},{"text":"When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little time. The modern humanities and industrial capitalism were more or less twinned at birth. To preserve a set of values and ideas under siege, you needed among other things institutions known as universities set somewhat apart from everyday social life. This remoteness meant that humane study could be lamentably ineffectual. But it also allowed the humanities to launch a critique of conventional wisdom.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["18th-century","capitalism","criticism","humanities","university"],"id":61756,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"},{"text":"The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.","author":"Terry Eagleton","tags":["academia","education","humanities","university"],"id":71028,"author_id":"Terry+Eagleton"},{"text":"[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to their defiantly nonutilitarian character, so that individuals can know more than how things work, and develop their powers of discernment and judgment, their competence in matters of truth and goodness and beauty, to equip themselves adequately for the choices and the crucibles of private and public life.","author":"Leon Wieseltier","tags":["development","humanities","life","utility"],"id":86800,"author_id":"Leon+Wieseltier"},{"text":"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.","author":"J. Irwin Miller","tags":["human","sense","humanities "],"id":118717,"author_id":"J.+Irwin+Miller"},{"text":"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.","author":"Damon Horowitz","tags":["advanced-degrees","career-ladder","careers","humanities","industry","perspective","ph-d-s","technology"],"id":139015,"author_id":"Damon+Horowitz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}