John Lithgow on the Importance of a Humanities Education

At a time when so much focus has been on the need for the U.S. to nurture more graduates who specialize in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, a call was put out by the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences for a commitment to the study of the humanities. Actor John Lithgow and President of Duke University Richard Brodhead join NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown to talk about how a humanities education supports a lifelong mission of learning.