Thriving Educational Dollars: The Arts and Humanities is Powerful In Max Rebarb’s book, “Wasted Educational Dollars” New Perspectives on Education and Economic Benefit Rebarb argues, “the arts and humanities is useless.” He also states that faculties in post-secondary buildings should be removed because of them being “useless.” Rebarb’s opinion is flawed though, and one that’s inconsistent. The arts and humanities offer creativity in children for the future, historical events to review from the past to benefit people in decision making, and have proven to be worth the expenses despite Rebarb’s claims. The arts and humanities is important because they offer creativity and information that can’t be found in other subjects of interest.
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Once again a significant flaw to Rebarb’s suggestion of closing down faculties. In Albrecht Classen’s “The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future: Why the Middle Ages Mean so Much for Us Today and Tomorrow" he discusses how learning about the past does so, through different mediums of literature and subjects in the humanities: philosophy, religion, and literature itself. One way, Classen demonstrates this point is by telling his own story of learning about the past in the 70s and 80s. Back when Classen studied history the earliest information that was available to the students was in 1789, and today students and historians have the ability to search farther than 1789 and even father then the medieval …show more content…
Even with the respect to technical writing and communications, Rebarb disregards other just-as-important subjects within the faculties, including history and philosophy. His passage on this subject is not consistent and otherwise—for the previous point of respectability—not respectful of those in the arts and humanities. Nevertheless, the arts and humanities offer: creativity, events to review, and education dollars spent on the faculties are thriving instead of the “wasted” term Rebarb uses. The arts and humanities are important and essential to learn within the education system, even with the disregard for the subjects, the faculties continue to influence and inspire students for the benefit of the
Once again a significant flaw to Rebarb’s suggestion of closing down faculties. In Albrecht Classen’s “The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future: Why the Middle Ages Mean so Much for Us Today and Tomorrow" he discusses how learning about the past does so, through different mediums of literature and subjects in the humanities: philosophy, religion, and literature itself. One way, Classen demonstrates this point is by telling his own story of learning about the past in the 70s and 80s. Back when Classen studied history the earliest information that was available to the students was in 1789, and today students and historians have the ability to search farther than 1789 and even father then the medieval …show more content…
Even with the respect to technical writing and communications, Rebarb disregards other just-as-important subjects within the faculties, including history and philosophy. His passage on this subject is not consistent and otherwise—for the previous point of respectability—not respectful of those in the arts and humanities. Nevertheless, the arts and humanities offer: creativity, events to review, and education dollars spent on the faculties are thriving instead of the “wasted” term Rebarb uses. The arts and humanities are important and essential to learn within the education system, even with the disregard for the subjects, the faculties continue to influence and inspire students for the benefit of the