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Sure, but, in general, the people doing a BA in gender studies probably won't make a great addition to the STEM workforce, but the BA will teach them other valu
by chadcmulligan 6y ago
Sure, but, in general, the people doing a BA in gender studies probably won't make a great addition to the STEM workforce, but the BA will teach them other valuable skills, and they'll end up in teaching or management or something. To exclude these people from an education is short sighted in my opinion, the more educated people we have the better.
- pb7 6y ago>the people doing a BA in gender studies probably won't make a great addition to the STEM workforce You never know. They do keep demanding diversity. Diversity of thought might be just the thing.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoI think you've made my point - BA's in things you may not think of may end up being useful, why exclude them?
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- pb7 6y agoI think we’re in general agreement. But we already have BAs, presumably mostly folks that are naturally more geared towards that. And they’re not great for designing planes. So I’m proposing bringing the next generation of those same types of people, but to pursue engineering instead. You still need the technical education to do the work but perhaps it should be more than kids that grew up with Legos is what I’m saying.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoYah, maybe, this is part of a big picture that I've been thinking about lately - is the economy there to serve people, or are the people there to serve the economy. The libs want the dial set very much to the people serve the economy, and they're taking advantage of the current situation to make it so. I'm more an economy is there to serve the people, so let's make things so that people have a good life, and figure out how we can do this.