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Response to an education minister who regards history as irrelevant

Architecture and humanities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2003

Michael Asselmeyer
Michael Asselmeyer
Affiliation:
School of Architecture, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HTUK, [email protected]
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Abstract

The UK's Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, was recently quoted as describing medieval historians as ‘ornaments’ and suggested that the state should no longer pay for their activities. As attacks on liberal education go, his particular utilitarian and anti-cultural point was not unusual. But was it justified? Here, Michael Asselmeyer, a medieval historian himself, takes issue and argues the case for teaching humanities to architects.

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Perspective
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 10 - 11
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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