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Peer reviewedHoffman, Robert – Academe, 1982
The criteria of practical benefit and objectivity applied to the humanities cannot keep them from their rightful place alongside mathematics and sciences as a worthwhile endeavor. These criteria are misleading. The humanities forge a sense of beauty, compassion, honor, humor, and shape love, friendship, and enmity. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Humanistic Education
