Con: Has STEM Education Lost The Plot?
STEM education remains true to its purpose: to serve as an intentional leveraging of human talent to increase human efficiency, survival, and comfort. Among the advanced traits that propelled humanity toward global dominance, perhaps the most significant feature is our collaborative ability. Humans consistently cooperate across kin and tribe, and we recognize the fruits of […]
Pro: Has STEM Education Lost The Plot?
With both of my parents as graduate-level STEM professors and my brother a civil engineer, I am no stranger to indoctrination into STEM’s superiority. As a junior premedical biology major engaged in biomedical engineering research, I was taught early that exploration of the humanities was a hobby, not a pursuit of equal intellectual weight. In […]