#humanities

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. ↗

— Jon Secada

#college #community #community college #cut #dying

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#did #education #elders #fine #get

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artists #arts-and-humanities #gadfly #rebel

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #be-yourself #creative-people #creative-process

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#culture #fulfillment #globe #humanities #learn