From elementary schools to colleges and graduate schools, education in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is widely considered far more valuable to society—because it is believed to be more technologically and economically productive—than education in the humanities, such as philosophy, classical literature, history, and the other non-STEM liberal arts. At its most extreme, this valuation of STEM education over non-STEM education takes the form of blatant denigration of study in the humanities.
This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Adam C. Pelser about his 39:4 article, “Philosophy, Politics, and the End of Liberal Arts Education“.
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