A case for the liberal arts

Today’s focus on STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) is laudable, and no doubt helps guide impressionable young people into fields of study that will equip them directly for employment in today’s highly technical workforce.

That said, there is a real danger that as a society we are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The nuts and bolts of our economy may be based on the hard sciences to an unprecedented degree, but living in community with other humans – even when the money economy is the primary armature ordering those interactions – is definitively more art than science.

By: Michael J. Brown

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