<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/magazine/spring-2022/importance-humanities.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Importance of the Humanities in Liberal Arts Education</title><excerpt>Enrico Manlapig, associate professor of economics and business, went to college in Australia, which lacks LIBERAL ARTS colleges. He studied commerce and economics for five years before earning his degree. “It was all economics all the time,” he says. “It’s a great training for a particular kind of work, but it left me with massive holes in my knowledge as a human being and a citizen. For example, I don’t understand what a cell is, as I’ve never taken a biology class. I have only a high-school level understanding of world conflicts throughout the centuries, because that’s the last time I studied history.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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