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The article equates STEM education with technical "skills". This is comparison is absurd and is yet another attempt to set up a straw man in order to knock it
by graycat 12y ago
The article equates STEM education
with technical "skills". This is
comparison is absurd and is
yet another attempt to
set up a straw man in order to knock
it down and to scream
(borrowing from the movie The Music Man)
"Oh we got trouble, right here
in River City. Trouble starts
with a T and that's rhymes with"
an E, and that stands for
education. So, in the movie
the guy was trying to start a
boy's band to sell musical
instruments and band uniforms,
and the OP is trying to sell
courses in philosophy and art history?
To the OP, I would suggest that
the STEM fields do better
on deep and critical thinking than
philosophy and art history.
For the US K-12 scores
in math and science and
the comparison of those scores
with South Korea, Singapore,
Finland, etc., I'd say:
The claim of the OP on these
scores is that US K-12
education needs to do better
to catch up with the other
countries.
Okay, let's consider that claim:
Compare the scores of students
in those other countries
with the scores of students
in the US with recent ancestors
from those other countries.
E.g., compare scores of students
in Finland with the scores of
students in the US with
recent ancestors from Finland.
Then are doing better comparing
the schools and not just the
cultures. So, in crude terms,
will be controlling on
country of origin.
Here the OP has yet another straw man
erected just to be knocked down.