Thanx for your thoughtful piece, Bri. It is indeed very worrying what is happening in the Netherlands and beyond. I am also vey worried about the cuts that are proposed for the NPO broadcasting cooperation. I'm enjoying many of their excellent documentaries here in NZ, online though the NPO app. The quality and variety of these programs is just mind-blowing. I just hope the Dutch voters realize in time that this government is bad news.
Hi Brie - thank you so much for writing and sharing this. I resonate with your frustration, and I’m grateful you’ve provided a list of ways for us to better support the humanities. I’ve always been grateful to humanities programs myself - they were a huge part of my formative years. Dismissing humanities as expendable has always been such a deterministic and short-sighted view… Makes me think of Sir Ken Robinson’s talks on “Do schools kill creativity?” and “How to escape education’s death valley.” Wish we would value true learning, and harvesting it within our younger generations more.
Devastated by the recent announcement here in Aotearoa to focus on “a system that supports growth, and a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs.”
this post is honestly so relatable and it's also inspired me to write something too. Thank you for putting everything into words on our behalf. (I study History)
I’m afraid they won’t be satisfied until everyone does a computer science/finance and comes out of university not just able but eager to be plugged into the borg
With the world going where it’s currently going, the skills of the humanities are getting more important, but I fear that the one’s in power might not realise that before it’s too late
Thank you for putting this feeling into words. It is a comfort to read this and know that while we’re tired, we are not alone.
Thanx for your thoughtful piece, Bri. It is indeed very worrying what is happening in the Netherlands and beyond. I am also vey worried about the cuts that are proposed for the NPO broadcasting cooperation. I'm enjoying many of their excellent documentaries here in NZ, online though the NPO app. The quality and variety of these programs is just mind-blowing. I just hope the Dutch voters realize in time that this government is bad news.
Hi Brie - thank you so much for writing and sharing this. I resonate with your frustration, and I’m grateful you’ve provided a list of ways for us to better support the humanities. I’ve always been grateful to humanities programs myself - they were a huge part of my formative years. Dismissing humanities as expendable has always been such a deterministic and short-sighted view… Makes me think of Sir Ken Robinson’s talks on “Do schools kill creativity?” and “How to escape education’s death valley.” Wish we would value true learning, and harvesting it within our younger generations more.
Devastated by the recent announcement here in Aotearoa to focus on “a system that supports growth, and a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs.”
Yes that’s very concerning. Seems to be a trend happening everywhere atm
this post is honestly so relatable and it's also inspired me to write something too. Thank you for putting everything into words on our behalf. (I study History)
I’m afraid they won’t be satisfied until everyone does a computer science/finance and comes out of university not just able but eager to be plugged into the borg
With the world going where it’s currently going, the skills of the humanities are getting more important, but I fear that the one’s in power might not realise that before it’s too late
The Humanities are not humane! Just boatloads of Marxist crap forced on us with money from the grants I pay for. Anti intellectual sop! Be gone!