science/humanities

In grades 1 to 6: every subject was relatively easy. I would - honestly - say that my science classes were a bit hard for me. As I progressed further up, I found science getting easier and easier.

In grades 1 to 6: the hardest subject of all was language (any kind of language). Writing essays was by no means fun - it was a chore.

In grades 7 and up: I realized that subjects in humanities are "intrinsically" harder for me. I knew that humanities were harder than sciences, but I didn't know whether I liked science. I just loved math for the sake of it.

In grade 8: I broke up with history and art. I took geography (though quite a lot of it was human geography) in preference to... what was it called again? "Development studies"? What's that? I never did development studies, nor did it sound remotely interesting. I also avoided business studies and accounting, which are - frankly - boring. Science is way cooler, at least in my opinion. I also picked computer studies over art because I have a greater interest in computers than in drawing.

In grade 11 to 12: I began to realize that biology and chemistry are by far not  as intriguing as physics and math. Therefore, physics and math became my favorite subjects. I also thought pure math was - um - too pure and bland, so maybe some applied math might be better. That's not to say I don't like pure math at all: to some extent, I still like abstract math, but I get bored easily by the plethora of theorems and proofs.

Well, that's about my summary of my contact with various subjects - I was a bit sketchy with the list. Okay, as a not-so-related finale to this post: here's what I've been thinking about humanities recently:

Simple question: why are humanity* subjects so lacking in pictures? What, can a person just truly understand a topic without even a single picture? (My philosophy textbooks contain no pictures - just text.) I personally have to visualize things, make up pictures in my head, just for the sake of understanding what these words truly mean. Why don't they just insert a few pictorial representation of things in the books? (My physics textbook has a lot of nice illustrations, even for abstract things like magnetic fields.) It would make the topics a whole lot easier to swallow, at least in my opinions. (Perhaps this is why reading books with pure text is difficult/boring for me.)

So are humanities are just as abstract as the sciences?

 * Well, this may not be true for all humanities subjects, but it certainly is true for some of them. In addition, some might argue that the dichotomy between science and humanities is incorrect, but this is a personal distinction that I make myself.