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                    [Summary] => A generation reared in the primacy of technology and the sciences will find it difficult to justify the importance of the humanities, most of all, the value of literature.


Why literature? It does not teach us how to run a business and make a fortune. The traditional function of the writer, the poet, the storyteller is that of a teacher, a recorder of history, and the infallible creator of the granite foundation on which a nation stands. In other words, literature gives a nation its identity and memory.


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                    [AuthorName] => HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose
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TO THE GRADUATING CLASS 2004

By HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose | March 21, 2004 - 12:00am

A generation reared in the primacy of technology and the sciences will find it difficult to justify the importance of the humanities, most of all, the value of literature. Why literature? It does not teach us how...

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