Ideally the humanities forces you to think about values and the why of things, not just the how. Not all goals are worth achieving...you can "change the world"

Ideally the humanities forces you to think about values and the why of things, not just the how. Not all goals are worth achieving...you can "change the world" and make it a worse place. More practically, the humanities teaches persuasion and rhetoric, in writing and in speaking, as well as reading between the lines when reading or listening. I work with engineers...kind of am one myself, though I was trained as a humanist...and I see them dashing themselves on those rocks on a weekly basis.