Humanities provides a strong foundation for diversity of the human spirit. Free thought is about innovation and growth. Humanities teaches the individual to find a problem and sort out if the solution is actually a full resolution. For example, a teacher will give a lecture in class and will eventually test the students on what they learned. Unfortunately, there is more than one way to test knowledge. For example, Brody Howard examined assessments in higher education and believes, “The wrong sorts of evaluation tools focus solely on the instrumental value and ignore the intrinsic value, threatening the future of the humanities in higher education”. The disconnect happens when humanities is analyzed through the scope of a STEM lens which has
