Being educated in the humanities seems to encourage a lot better critical thinking in students along with supplying society with art and culture for an absolute

Being educated in the humanities seems to encourage a lot better critical thinking in students along with supplying society with art and culture for an absolutely insignificant amount of money. The cost of granting 3k to an artist to build a golden toilet statue with the constitution on a toilet roll is so incredibly insignificant compared to the cost of curtailing critical thinking abilities - especially for a country that is so reliant on it for continued economic health. Private sources decently fund these things, but public money makes sure we have a diversity of artists. Those artists certainly do include those peddling fringe views, in fact, from a certain angle, we've all got fringe views - exploring that diversity does us all a service.