The fields of mathematics and science always have a correct answer. For example, two plus two is four, or a ball falls to the ground due to gravity. Although math and science are very important and essential topics to understand while growing up and building a foundation of education, humanities lets you dive deeper into the mind and emotions of a person. Slouka brings up a valid point that we as a society are paying too much attention on math and sciences, that “…the relationship is obsessive, exclusionary, alto-gether unhealthy” (38). Dictatorial would be a faultless word to describe what math and sciences are becoming in America taking over what kids learn in school. “The federal government is asked to pay the cost of finding 30,000 new math and science teachers” (39). Our schools are becoming like a communist government, rather then a democratic place to study and learn.
These two areas of study, both mathematics and science, act like the roof, and bricks of the house, the stability and the foundation, however, without the teaching of humanities there is nothing inside to furnish the house. We want to be comforted with what’s on the inside of the house, what kind of relationships the family has and this can be accomplished by the studying of humanities. Marcus Eure, an English teacher from Brewster high school says “We want our students to take into their interactions with others, into their readings, into their private thoughts, depth of experience and a willingness to be wrong. Only a study of the humanities provides that” (39). The humanities provide us with a different, more subjective way of thinking that makes a person ask a question or argue against someone’s idea. This method of thought allows someone to express how he or she truly feels. There is no definite right or wrong answer in the study of humanities, allowing people to step out of their comfort zone into a whole new world where as long as they can support their theory, it shall hold true.
