With the anti-calculus post from last time, I'd love to see less of these types articles. Imagine an article saying we need less English and less composition i

With the anti-calculus post from last time, I'd love to see less of these types articles. Imagine an article saying we need less English and less composition in college and high school, except you wouldn't see such an article because writers do not hate writing (at least not beyond some ironic sense). But sure, if you ask any teenage with a 10 page report due next week, they definitely would like less writing in their curriculum. I feel like we will however never seen op-eds critique writing and generally humanities in education because those who write op-eds value it. They however, do not value mathematics in their own lives (probably having others do the mathematics they would otherwise need to do for themselves), and thus they incessantly attack it. I hate to make a meta-psycho-point but I must: Some part of me wonders if stuff like this is some people in the humanities having a reaction to the status quo today in academia where they are undervalued--I do feel that in status and funding in education today, the humanities generally does not receive the respect they deserve. Too much emphasis is given to STEM (and lately, STEAM which still leaves the humanities out). That said, I don't think attacking STEM is the way to ameliorate the issue, and it really leaves me with the same feeling I had when my peers cracked jokes about "the English department," that they simply did not understand what they study and are painting other fields and experts with broad generalizations.