STEM: Don’t ignore the humanities
First of all, this is not a condemnation of STEM. How wonderful it is that education is tackling the needs of the technological world, and particularly that now girls have more opportunities to excel at science, technology, engineering, and math! When I was in high school, my career options were to become a teacher, a nurse, or a secretary. Period.
But what I see too often in public discourse is a mindset that, while championing the benefits of STEM, relegates the humanities to the dustbin, thereby neglecting students’ intuitive, creative, and emotional development and all that that entails.
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