Re:Education as Civilization-Building
by AlotOfReading on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:48AM
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The S and M from STEM are liberal arts. It's simply a term to distinguish fields like physics, anthropology, etc from "vocational training"-type programs like med schools [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education#Modern_...
Re:Education as Civilization-Building
by IfOnlyYouKnew on Monday November 14, 2022 @05:08PM
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…and math is among the “liberal arts”.
Everyone doing liberal arts means nobody has the skills to run the modern technologies that power our society. Nobody wants to pay for a vague qualification
Teach arts as part of a rounded education sure, but also teach STEM so we can actually get things done and people can get paid for doing something that organisations actually want done.
Over-optimisation towards one or the other leads to either arts qualified young adults who can't do much for work, or highly literal engineering types who only see value as utility.