If the University of Chicago Won't Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Re:If the University of Chicago Won't Defend the Humanities,... by terminalshort on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:01PM (#45484712)

That just sounds like being smart. I can't see any relation to any of that to studying humanities in school. In fact from my experience in school the humanities classes were much more memorize and repeat back than the STEM ones.

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Re:If the University of Chicago Won't Defend the Humanities,... by ForHackernews on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:20PM (#45485817)

There's a correlation that smart people study things they find interesting. As soon as it became clear that computer science was a money maker, you had a lot of students taking doing CS majors who weren't really interested in anything except making money.

Majoring in anything other than CS, engineering, finance, business, or biology (premed) is a signal for intellectual curiosity. Obviously there are plenty of students with real curiosity in those majors too, but there's also many incurious mercenaries.

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Re:If the University of Chicago Won't Defend the Humanities,... by Jensson on Sunday October 05, 2025 @08:44PM (#45486581)

But that doesn't put any value on those degrees, just the smart people.

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