Article Title: How the pressure of ‘modernisation’ make humanities education crumble
Article Summary
The article describes the impact of modernisation on the field of humanities. All over the world, State-funded humanities research and teaching are being shut down. The new tend of multiple choice questions, test paper ‘patterns’ and quantitative evaluation has taken over most of the educational systems instead of teaching youngsters how develop their understanding of a subject.
The author highlights the importance of the field of humanities and the teachers who provide knowledge to students and help their imagination. Humanities helps students to make sense of the world and teaches how the different actions and choices affect their lives. The pressure due to the modernisation of the process of education is causing a decay in the humanities stream. The author finds this pattern disturbing and believes it will be detrimental for the students as well as overall society because people would not challenge the world around them with the powerful tools of humanities education.
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Words to learn from this Article:
Yardstick: a standard used for comparison.
Insights: the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something.
Context: the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.
Nuance: a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
Homilies: a tedious moralising lecture.
Lobotomising: make (someone) less able to function mentally or emotionally.
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