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Singapore: Humanities at the heart of a holistic education in a tech-driven world

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Date: 14 Jul 2018 | By: Tommy Koh | Story Source: Channel News Asia ~ Go to Original Article

 

The fourth industrial revolution has not made the study of the humanities irrelevant. We want our humanists to understand technology and our technologists to understand the humanities, says Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh.

SINGAPORE: We are living through the fourth industrial revolution.

The first was the Agrarian Revolution which happened about 10,000 years ago. Humans stopped foraging for food for survival. They learned to grow food and domesticated animals. Food production improved and human settlements grew in size, leading to the emergence of villages, towns and cities.

The second revolution, called the Industrial Revolution, began in the 18th century and accelerated in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was powered by…

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