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mk  ·  4362 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: History, Who Needs It?

One of the most pervasive erroneous ideas in this day and age is the false choice between an education in STEM or the Humanities.

A well-educated person has made, and continues to make, a genuine effort to understand science, technology, and the liberal arts, and does so from a perspective informed by those that have been and are experts in the field.

You can be an educated person in one discipline, but you cannot be a well-educated person unless you have uncommon and useful knowledge in multiple disciplines.

A class on Joyce is no less fluff than a class on multi-variable calculus. A well-educated person understands the value of the STEM and the Humanities because he/she has sought to understand them.

Someone that does not value either STEM or the Humanities is someone that does not have uncommon and useful knowledge in one of them.