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Every single word you just said is true.

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I think in our defense of the humanities, we need to be more comfortable making those arguments (and, yes, emotional appeals) to the deeper meaning of learning, in addition to purely meeting the quantitative arguments on their own ground.

There's an irony that some folks in the quantitative fields reject the value of parts of a humanities education which can't be quantified, while one of the lessons of the humanities is the arrogance of assuming that one's epistemology (e.g. quantified knowledge) is the only one.