Untitled. Ignorance About Education Ignorance has many powerful advantages over knowledge.
Typically it is simple and easy to communicate, while knowledge, by its very nature, usually tends to be nuanced and complex. Ignorance requires no evidence and no research. To Save the Humanities, Change the Narrative - Commentary. By Christopher Panza and Richard Schur In the classic children’s story Chicken Little, the main character feels an acorn drop on her head and infers from this that the sky is falling.
She announces the sky’s imminent collapse to all the animals she encounters. Soon Chicken Little and her friends get an invitation into a fox’s den to escape the danger. The animals enter the den only to be devoured by the clever fox. The story is a fitting allegory for the current state of the humanities. Move over, Stem: why the world needs humanities graduates. On the third day God created Stem subjects?
Not exactly. Photograph: Carmine Flamminio/Demotix/Corbis. Why STEM Should Care About the Humanities – The Conversation. One need not look far these days to find people skeptical (at best) about the value of higher education.
Most of these people particularly question the value of a liberal-arts education, which they view as outdated and elitist. Claiming economic pragmatism, they seek the curtailment or even outright elimination of arts and humanities programs. Liberal arts, they say, are a luxury we can no longer afford, because students who study the liberal arts do not develop the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. Report: Humanities, social science education needed along with STEM. UGC FROM ARTICLE: {allow_comments=true, allow_photos=false, allow_videos=false, comments_period=14, comments_source=washpost.com, default_sort=, default_tab=, display_comments=true, is_ugc_gallery=false, max_items_to_display=15, max_items_to_display_top=3, moderation_required=false, stream_id=}!!!
At MIT, the humanities are just as important as STEM. The role of the humanities in American education has been the subject of much recent debate amid concerns that the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math) are eclipsing the humanities fields in relevance and career prospects.
So some may be surprised, and, I hope, reassured, to learn that here at MIT — a bastion of STEM education — we view the humanities, arts, and social sciences as essential, both for educating great engineers and scientists, and for sustaining our capacity for innovation. Continue reading below. New study assesses humanities' impact by credits earned, not majors declared. A new analysis from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences confirms a common fear: humanities majors and STEM majors dwell in separate academic silos.
STEM majors, especially engineering students, take few humanities courses, the data show. And humanities majors take even fewer STEM courses. But the data also reveal that humanities courses are more popular than one might expect. 21st Century da Vincis: How Humanities and STEM Intersect. Oh, The Humanities! Why STEM shouldn't take Precedence over the Arts. As much trouble as the education industry is in, every state continues to witness the dissolving of the very funds intended to help it.
Major cuts in education have been directed toward the arts and humanities where millions of students are being deprived of these subjects and outlets. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), nearly 1.5 million elementary students are without music, nearly 4 million are without the visual arts, and almost 100% of them, more than 23 million, are educated without dance and theatre. Government Push for STEM.