Where's Your Humanity?

With the ever growing focus on STEM education, where do the humanities fit in?  Will they or should they just be ignored or overlooked? 

This was the topic of Edutopia blogger, Bill Smoot, in his latest entry "Humanities in the 21st Century."  Smoot, English teacher, voices his concern that humanities will be over looked and become unfortunately irrelevant in our fast paced technology enhance cultures.  I too, even as a science teacher, wonder this often. 

I personally think important life lessons are learned by studying the humanities. Our history, who we are, how we got here is all intertwined in this important sector of curriculum.  How can we be sure of where we are headed without knowing where we came from? 

With technology advancements making our world smaller each day and connecting with people from all around the world easier, its important that our students know who they are and what they stand for and believe.  To me it seems that the humanities are becoming even more important in the 21st century; they are the threads keeping us together in a increasingly virtual world.

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Works Cited
Smoot, B.  Humanities in the 21st Century.  Edutopia. Retrieved July 21, 2011 from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/humanities-twenty-first-century-bill-smoot?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader