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Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding
- dalke 11y agoI think it's safe to say that "STEM", when used by politicians, is code phrase for "subsidized training for business and industry jobs." Otherwise, do you really think they intend to fund more specialists in, say, general relativity, paleontology, and astronomy? Personally, I find that I lack the history training to really understand the politics that drives a lot of science. For example, pieces like http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/573/a-whig-history-of-crispr/ http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/573/a-whig-history-of-crisp... and http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/engineering-life/2016/01/18/crispr-in-the-history-of-science-and-intellectual-property/ http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/engineering-life/2016/01/18/crispr... helped me understand the recent "Heroes of CRISPR" firestorm. Then again, this anti-liberal arts movement started in the 1960s, when all those people trained in college to understand history, philosophy, anthropology, etc. started protesting the actions of a government using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to conduct war in Southeast Asia.