For all the lip service STEM education gets, “liberals” actually have no use for it.I say that because to them everything is political, and STEM doesn’t work that way. And because for all their prattle about how socialism (under their tutelage) will provide “quality health care,” socialism inherently is the death of quality because it is the death of innovation.
Their system is to take all the profit out of every endeavor (except government, of course), and the first casualty of that is innovation. And because “If you are not trying to get better, you are getting worse,” the death of innovation - of trying to get better - saps quality even from existing operations done in (nominally) the same old way.
I agree with you. Students will choose to go into STEM fields if there are jobs at the end of the hardest degrees to earn.
Exactly right. Nothing kills the human spirit faster or more than collectivism. And the left is all about collectivism — everything they do (EVERYTHING) is oriented toward that one objective. To the extent that leftists continue making inroads with their collectivist thinking and governance, this ship cannot be turned around.
Freedom, liberty, owning the fruits of your own labor, innovation — none of these thrive in a collectivist system.
“Why should I work hard when others take away what I create?”
I honestly cannot imagine a system more corrosive to the human soul than collectivism. Except perhaps Hades.
I have a question for those of you who know this stuff. I read somewhere (in trying to decipher a horrifically mangled Calculus course for a tutoring gig) that a lot of what's done by methods of Calculus is becoming obsolete, and the most important skill is a high level of comprehension of upper-level analytic problem-solving. Will Calculus courses change radically in the future?
Or they try to convert STEM to STEAM or STREAM by adding art and reading to it to latch their teeth and ideology into STEM's budget.