Particularly interesting are his evocations of those days in which advanced training in humanities were the gateway to self advancement and his reflections on the close linkage between the rise of humane studies and Athenian democracy. Knox states “Humanities was the royal road to riches, the ticket of admission to the elite intellectual club, and the path to patriotic glory and the grave.” Knox believes that the humanities were necessary in the ancient times because there were
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of