“Studying the humanities means learning to analyze what we read and watch, learning new languages and cultures, learning about other times and other places, and learning more about our own language, culture, time, and place. The humanities don’t exist in a separate space from our everyday lives, but this doesn’t mean that we instinctively know how to be good humanists. We need experienced practitioners to introduce us to areas that are unfamiliar to us, to train us by prodding and correcting as we learn. This training then carries over into careers as varied as education, the sciences, business, and law, and also into our nonworking lives, as we strive to be better citizens, parents, and people.”