Humanitarian education teaches various social topics from a humanitarian perspective. However important our academic careers may be for us, a certain iota of humanity is always expected from us as being the superior living beings on earth. Whether we need to study specialized subjects for such a quality to develop in us is a debatable issue.
The people who opine that studying such subjects is a waste of time may believe so, keeping in mind that many academic curriculum is set and rarely changes. Therefore, the history, literature or philosophy that is taught is done from a text-bookish perspective, and does not give in-depth knowledge of the same. Also, people feel that memorizing dates and facts, sources of the origin of a language, or brooding on lessons derived from life hardly matter when we go out in search of work.
On the contrary, humanitarian education particularly relates to offering assistance to others in an emergency or crisis and is also used to refer to the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed for individuals and communities to help themselves. In the hostile environment we are living nowadays, the goal of humanitarian education of communities increasing their resilience and individuals and groups becoming confident, able and willing to help themselves and others when faced with a crisis, is something that can obviously not be developed on our own.
I believe we need to look beyond the established stereotyping of history, literature and philosophy as subjects and need to broaden our mentality. Apart from the much popular career choices that rake in our desired amount of money, the historians, literary scholars and philosophers too play an important role in our societies. The teachings and observations of Karl Marx, Aristotle, Socrates, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and many such other personalities are still cited today for reference.
Summarizing this essay we can conclude that classifying humanitarian subjects as having no value for future careers is narrow minded. These subjects are also as important as any other, when being chosen for a thorough study so as to make a career out of them.
Humanitarian
education teaches various social topics from a
humanitarian
perspective.
However
important
our academic
careers
may be for us, a certain iota of humanity is always
expected
from us as being the superior living beings on earth. Whether we need to study specialized
subjects
for such a quality to develop in us is a debatable issue.
The
people
who opine that studying such
subjects
is a waste of time may believe
so
, keeping in mind that
many
academic curriculum
is set
and rarely
changes
.
Therefore
, the history, literature or philosophy that
is taught
is done
from a text-bookish perspective, and does not give in-depth knowledge of the same.
Also
,
people
feel that memorizing dates and facts, sources of the origin of a language, or brooding on lessons derived from life hardly matter when we go out in search of work.
On the contrary
,
humanitarian
education
particularly
relates to offering assistance to others in an emergency or crisis and is
also
used
to refer to the
skills
, knowledge and attitudes needed for individuals and communities to
help
themselves. In the hostile environment we are living nowadays, the goal of
humanitarian
education of communities increasing their resilience and individuals and groups becoming confident, able and willing to
help
themselves
and others
when faced with a crisis, is something that can
obviously
not
be developed
on our
own
.
I believe we need to look beyond the established stereotyping of history, literature and philosophy as
subjects
and need to broaden our mentality. Apart from the much popular
career
choices that rake in our desired amount of money, the historians, literary scholars and philosophers too play an
important
role in our societies. The teachings and observations of Karl Marx, Aristotle, Socrates, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and
many
such
other
personalities are
still
cited
today
for reference.
Summarizing this essay we can conclude that classifying
humanitarian
subjects
as having no value for future
careers
is
narrow minded
. These
subjects
are
also
as
important
as any
other
, when
being chosen
for a thorough study
so as to
make
a
career
out of them.