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Educators must take a tough and realistic attitude towards the humanities, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, said last week to a Hay Fellowship Conference in New York.
Jones urged educators to stop trying to "sugar coat" the humanities as the humane person would not be the product of a "milk and water version of the subject."
The topic provides an opportunity for maturation and development of the soul, but it takes hard work comparable to that necessary in studying physics or medicine, he added.
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