Answer: Humanism encouraged intellectuals to focus on human accomplishment and potential
Explanation: Humanism places humans and human rationalism at the center of interest, action and thinking. Rationalism is the tendency for all phenomena in nature and in society to be explained and interpreted on the basis of scientific evidence, theories and laws. So not based on superstition or faith-based explanation. Thus, the humanistic approach made scientific work free of church prejudice and the result was a myriad of scientific discoveries, theories, and rational explanations. In that sense, human potential is enormous, one that needs to be developed and focused on human achievement, which has proven to be enormous.
Taking into account the statement above: "The U.S. Department of Education has found that less than half of all high school seniors in the U.S. are able to handle basic math involving fractions, decimals, and simple algebra."
