Our world today values STEM programs and majors at a different level than they do with humanities. It is clear in budgeting within colleges, pressures put on importance in high school, and the way that humanities are discussed between everyday individuals. When I think of instrumental value, I think of money. Money can be used to purchase things and it’s value is heavy. Money is huge when it comes to how the world works. When it comes to the humanities, it has instrumental value. For example, Brody says, “To address the larger challenge, teachers of ethics and humanities in medical settings have to be more articulate in addressing how the dysfunctional US healthcare system has been shaped by the ideology of economism, and what this external environment does to efforts to teach ethics and professionalism to students and residents” (4). People value a healthcare system that works properly, so if humanitarian and ethical ideologies are introduced, then humanities creates an instrumental value for others. If students have this further knowledge, then they also have an instrumental value for the humanities. I am not sure if humanities has an instrumental value for myself at this point in my life, but I would say that it has intrinsic value for me. Intrinsic value, to me, can best be described as happiness. It does not provide a physical value that has an endpoint. When I learn about the humanities it creates a value within myself and benefits me. It gives me “ah-ha” moments and I feel like I am learning key factors for my life. But I didn’t always feel this way. It is similar to Clune’s statement, “The first year literature student doesn’t begin my class with a capacity to judge literature equivalent to mine” (5). I think most professors forget about that ideology. Sometimes you have to ease into literary analysis and start with easier pieces. I can confidently say that the work I was doing my first year at college is very different from the work I can dissect now. I guess confidence could also be an intrinsic value of humanities as well.