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<p>And one person’s reality doesn’t necessarily equate to all reality. I started and deleted a post in which I also used the term, but the context was “If you really are describing the experience that you’ve had in humanities courses, then it’s no wonder you sound bitter.” That sounds pretty miserable. As someone who was once torn between engineering and philosophy, I’m glad my own experience was so different. The point I’ve been trying to make is that the learning style you describe–applying theories to various, modified, often unfamiliar problems–is not unique to the sciences.</p>
<p>“Prompting views” doesn’t describe a well-taught humanities course (or the preferred learning style of an intelligent, hardworking humanities student) any more than “rote memorization” describes a well-taught science course (or the preferred learning style of an intelligent, hardworking science student). IMO, a few people in this thread are arguing too far outside their own areas of expertise, because by now, there have been numerous ridiculous comments made about a pretty wide variety of fields. It’s saying more about the ignorance of the posters than the relative ease or difficulty of these fields.</p>
<p>BerkeleySenior: I do think you have a point about the relative, general ease of humanities vs. sciences. I’ve agreed with that since the beginning. That said, I don’t think that you’re making that point in a fair or reasonable way.</p>