&gt;In this respect, a humanities or broad liberal-arts education — meant to teach critical, analytic thinking, and engage students with questions about the human experience, does not seem like a bad idea.<p>I had never thought about the humanities in the context of what should they be doing. This was an insightful piece of what humanities could be.<p>Having said that, given the liberal arts classes I took at university I would not trust that group collectively with any detail of society that could impact outside of their academic world. The amorality of scientific knowledge would be a great deal preferable to that nonsense.