{"id":49961,"date":"2015-03-30T05:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/in-defense-of-the-liberal-arts.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:01:29","slug":"in-defense-of-the-liberal-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/30\/in-defense-of-the-liberal-arts.html","title":{"rendered":"In defense of the liberal arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

STEM is important, but its importance should not be asserted at the cost of less technical studies. Does the world need another art history major? I don't know — how many is enough, and how many art history majors are able to apply the concepts of what they learned about art, about history, about human behavior, about design and its evolution, to new in different disciplines.<\/p>\n

I was a history major. I ended up as an IT manager not because I took a ton of CS courses (though that would have had some value) but because I applied the experience<\/i> of being a history major to a technical experience (how do I make this user-friendly?), and went on from there, and I applied the analytic and communication skills I learned as a liberal arts student to engage with others using tools like email and PowerPoint even today.<\/p>\n

Would it be good to be graduating more engineering and math and science majors? Sure. But we can encourage that without disdaining the values and skills that liberal arts studies can provide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhy America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous<\/a><\/span>
\nAlongside technical skills, America needs the creativity that a liberal arts education provides.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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