Humanities at School

Humanities is a subject that probably isn't taught in other schools, and I had only recently heard of it when I moved to my new school. It's also a subject that probably hasn't been taught in the past and might have only been recently introduced to schools these days. However, it's an important subject that should probably have been introduced earlier to to students all around the world and has the potential to be life-changing.

When I was in grade 3 (the first time Humanities was introduced to me), Humanities sounded like a really difficult subject and sounded like university level material. At my old school, there had been no mention of such a subject and my friends from other schools never talked about anything of the sort when it came to such a subject. But as soon as we started learning, Humanities to me became a subject that just taught me about the other people in the world and didn't involve hard maths or difficult vocabulary. It was an eye-opener to me and my teachers went into depth (but not too deep for a third grader) about what other people in the world were like and how they lived their lives. Humanities wasn't like any other subjects, like English or Maths where we studied to gain knowledge to prepare for things such as future jobs, it felt like it was there to teach us about the people around us, to show us about ourselves as people. There are similar subjects such as law, politics, philosophy and history-but teaching things like those to someone who just came out of 2nd grade would be too confusing, and humanities was basically a subject that could sum all of that up-while being easy enough to understand.

The humans in this world are all different. Living in different conditions, being raised by different people and seeing different things give us all different perspectives on our own lives and how we see others. Humanities was a factual way learn about others in the world without added opinions to twist the way we learned about them. Asking people like parents or friends about others in the world would result in different opinions, and maybe sometimes even some misinformation due to the experiences they had and what they saw. If you asked someone the amount of Spanish people in their neighbourhood, there is a chance they might respond with how many Spanish people they'd seen in the neighbourhood they lived in- but there's a lot of flaws that come with their statement. You couldn't then be able to learn properly. When learning about Humanities with facts and detail going into peoples' lives, you can then make your own opinion based on what you learn. Things like this can really change humanity and change how people see others, and might even do more for how the humans interact with each other than something like Maths might do.

Humanities also is a subject that employs others in it. Maths is often used for percentages and populations, science can be used for how human beings have improved in science and what parts of the world have contributed more to science than others, and other things such as fine arts are all part of humanities-because they have all been created and developed by humans as time went on. It doesn't only teach you the facts, but it's also about people's personal lives and how they have grown and changed. Learning humanities makes you more understanding of the people around you, and you can also understand more about not only the people on this planet, but the planet itself and how we have affected it, therefore being more environmentally aware. Humanities might even make you a better person.

In conclusion, even though Humanities isn't a common subject in most schools, even though it should be because it would clearly benefit us all and teach us more about people in other countries. It has the potential to teach young children about people in other countries and how different they all are, which to me is a special thing because they'll retain that knowledge and it'll change the way they speak to and interact with others in the future. And for me, that's one of the most important things.