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One suggestion I had for students when I taught was that if they could, try to pursue two majors, one technical and one theoretical. This would require, obviously, elongating the amount of time a student stays in school, but the long-term effects are amazing. I did this in school, and what it mainly taught me was that I had to be auto-didactic. While my technical degree (meaning degree meant to get a job) was not on the level of engineering, I think the value of an approach is apparent. Another way of doing this is adding either a philosophical, ethical, or technical component (for humanities majors) which requires combining disparate subjects together.

Ultimately, I don't want to sacrifice arts and humanities to the degree that it would hurt technical education. Most engineering degrees require at least some hours in the humanities, but I think we could maximize that time through changing some aspects of our schooling.

Agreed, and I'd say the opposite as well. Having liberal arts majors take more challenging STEM courses.

I'm an oddball in that while my major was polisci/philosophy, I also took two semesters of calculus, C++, symbolic logic, and Physics w/ Calculus (the physics engineers took). I think I'm a much more rounded person for it as well.

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Posted by crazy4lsu

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Posted on 1/11/19 at 2:58 pm to Centinel

I'd be in favor of teaching programming languages in humanities too, as there are lots of tools those languages can give you. I'd also love it if we taught those programming languages in elementary, middle, and high schools, as I don't think something like symbolic or predicate logic is all that different from the principles of programming languages. That tie-in allows for all sorts of philosophical connections as well.

Learning Python as an adult has been a very valuable experience. I think everyone should learn some programming.

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