Why Study The Humanities?

   It seems remarkable to me that so many defenders of the humanities have been so bad at offering arguments in support of their passionately-held belief that the humanities are important...
...especially when one of their arguments is typically the humanities teach you to reason...
   I mean, I am inclined to think that there is something valuable about at least most of the humanities...but I actually think that it's harder than it might seem to produce support for that position...