Using data from the Robbins report published in 1963 he shows that while contact hours have stayed more or less the same in science and humanities, the quality of the time that students get from their tutors has got considerably worse as class sizes have increased.
In this cosmic struggle, humanity was inevitably involved, and the quality of human life was conditioned by this involvement.
While talking with HuffPost, Ford first said that the fact that people still discuss the question of Deckard's humanity "indicates the quality of the discourse, of the importance of that question of what it means to be human".
Dialogues defined human history, he said, and the quality of them would determine humanity's future.
Yet from the moment of its independence, India has been a resolutely secular nation and has managed to accommodate an extraordinary range of views on such fundamental questions as the nature of humanity, the existence of God and the quality of the soul.
Humanity evolves in close relation to nature and the quality of this relationship is reflected in the emotions, thought, culture, and health that every individual or society expresses.
But in the end, some scientists argue, humanity cannot sustain the quality of the environment until it thinks of itself as part of, not separate from, the natural world.
The human aspect of scientific research is always kept in the forefront by the association of scientific research with works of art on the journal's cover and by "Another Dimension" articles, reminding the reader that, in the end, the purpose of all scientific endeavor is the betterment of humanity and the improvement of the quality of life for all people.
To cultivate both the utility of the humanities and their contribution to the quality of life, we need to develop passionate, committed teachers at every level whose knowledge, enthusiasm, and interest in students enable them to help open the doors and windows of students' minds to the importance of the humanities.
For it is there, right in the cleft of mortal desperation that the quality of humanity is most tested and respect for life reinforced.
