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Re:Education as Civilization-Building by TheCapeGreek on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:03AM (#33590982)
Ideally it should be both.

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.

Re:Education as Civilization-Building by AlotOfReading on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:48AM (#33591226)
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 (#33601965)
…and math is among the “liberal arts”.