The study of what it is to be human is in one sense the most practical thing one could study, for it answers the question "How should I live, and why?"
If true, in respect to the most vital questions technical learning is rather impractical:
If true, in respect to the most vital questions technical learning is rather impractical:
Technical education is in one sense the mere changing of the deck chairs of career on the surface of one's life, which ought to be dictated from the interior if possible by what you learn from the so-called Human-ities, properly understood as the serious thing they are, or were.
Of course, if you have no career & wanna sit around & ponder life's deepest questions while adopting a disinterested pose there's a deserved asskicking a-coming, brought to you by life. I’m talking about actual liberal arts or humanities—questions every human must answer anyhow.
Because the same asskicking is a-coming from the other direction if you've never thought much about why you work, or what your life is aimed at, and the principles and purposes of the human.
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