What is Humanities?

posted by Justin D. Pereira

Just finished watching Dead Poet's Society and I have to say that it is a very touching movie for all you Humanities fans out there. The movie highlights some very true facts about today's world in which Humanities is being placed in.

Has Humanities become a subject where it is measured in grades? More specifically, has literature of today's subject drifted so much from the true nature of what it really is. The heart, soul passion of a person, can it be portrayed in terms or marks. A literature person may not necessarily be a writer who is able to pen down his thoughts but still his sensitive and analytical mind is able to reach out to all those around him through the power of his speech.

Has literature become that to be judged against the hypothetical assumptions of Chemistry and systematic procedures of Mathematics ? What has it become?

A real question which we must answer ourselves, while sadly we still live in a world where grades are usually what most people aim towards.