To the Editor:
Thank goodness that Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard, and Anthony T. Kronman, a Yale law professor—as well as President Obama—are such strong advocates for humanities education.
Without poetry, art, music, philosophy, languages, literature and history, we might as well all be robots.
To educate only with the short-term goal of producing a worker bee for the economic hive is to miss what it means to be a human being. And without a humanities background, the grads are not even likely to be as creative, thoughtful or insightful as those employees who have a liberal arts degree.
Steven A. Meyerowitz
Northport, N.Y., Feb. 25, 2009
The writer is a member of the Northport-East Northport Board of Education.
