I think people used to think and care about Forming Character as an aim of education and the humanities were very good for this Now people do not care about this and the humanities to the extent they exist seem to mostly be taught as gimped social science and/or grievances https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1064064154254815232 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
>and the humanities were very good for this [citation needed]
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Replying to @AlvaroDeMenard
its an extended argument curious, do you actually disagree?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Caplan's book shows that it's definitely not the case today (there's no effect at all, eg fear of uni turning people into sjws is nonsense). I'd be amazed if it were so in the past. No doubt past graduates had superior character but that's just due to more stringent selection.
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Replying to @AlvaroDeMenard @eigenrobot
i think the humanities or something like them could be taught in a way that makes people become Good who wouldn't bother to otherwise, but not aware of much evidence it literally happened often in the past
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would guess main benefit is making people inclined to become good do so more quickly or completely
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