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Soy fed LSU student says STEM learning bad, humanities good!
Posted on 11/9/18 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 11/9/18 at 1:59 pm
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A nationwide push toward STEM education could be a huge mistake. While careers in STEM fields currently boast the highest-paying positions that many companies are scrambling to fill, the educational focus on technical skills over broad-based learning could yield unintended adverse consequences.
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Instead, a degree in the humanities may be worth far greater because it teaches abstract logic rather than concrete skills. Nontechnical skills are harder to automate. Thus, choosing a degree in the humanities may be worth far more in the future when tech companies begin looking to hire outside of computer science.
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Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:02 pm to CptBengal
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:02 pm to CptBengal
And that’s how people run up 100k of loans and work in a coffee shop too.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:05 pm to CptBengal
I have a degree in "humanities" and had to go back to school to learn accounting in order to get a decent job.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:05 pm to CptBengal
Well that person is a dumb arse.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:06 pm to CptBengal
I think we can automate a Humanities college class pretty easily.
Broadcast one professor spewing bullshite to students in many location, grade based on how much the students kids up to the professor.
Technology thus replaces dozens, of not hundreds, of useless instructors in one fell swoop.
Broadcast one professor spewing bullshite to students in many location, grade based on how much the students kids up to the professor.
Technology thus replaces dozens, of not hundreds, of useless instructors in one fell swoop.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:06 pm to CptBengal
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a degree in the humanities may be worth far greater because it teaches abstract logic rather than concrete skills.
This statement hasn't been true for at least 20 years.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:07 pm to CptBengal
There’s nothing wrong with a humanities-based education. It does not offer the same opportunities out of the gate as STEM backgrounds do, but if you’re talented and you work hard, you can make money and be happy all the same.
I don’t buy the cookie-cutter this-degree-is-better-than-that-degree bullshite, from either side of this argument.
I don’t buy the cookie-cutter this-degree-is-better-than-that-degree bullshite, from either side of this argument.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:08 pm to CptBengal
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Instead, a degree in the humanities may be worth far greater because it teaches abstract logic rather than concrete skills. Nontechnical skills are harder to automate.
He's actually not completely wrong here, though. He's just going about it wrong and humanities is not where the jobs will be.
It's the general labor jobs that are going to be safer from automation more than the STEM fields.
ETA: for example, an accountant can be replaced by a computer a lot faster than a plumber ever will
This post was edited on 11/9/18 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:08 pm to CptBengal
I’ll give dumbass partial credit...
Tech companies DO like it when their employees have some classes or a minor outside of Computer Science or MIS/ISDS, but they still need to know their shite.
Woman’s Studies doesn’t teach you how to write SQL queries or debug Visual Basic.
Tech companies DO like it when their employees have some classes or a minor outside of Computer Science or MIS/ISDS, but they still need to know their shite.
Woman’s Studies doesn’t teach you how to write SQL queries or debug Visual Basic.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:08 pm to CptBengal
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a degree in the humanities may be worth far greater because it teaches abstract logic rather than concrete skills.
So he'll be proficient in Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:09 pm to Federal Tiger
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So he'll be proficient in Dungeons and Dragons?
nope, gender fluid dance theory.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:10 pm to Eighteen
“You think a stormtrooper knows how to install a toilet main? Alls they know is killing and white uniforms.”
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:11 pm to CptBengal
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Instead, a degree in the humanities may be worth far greater because it teaches abstract logic rather than concrete skills.
You see, there was a time when this was, to a degree, true. The humanties and social sciences USED to be where one could get a classical education and learn somewhat more broadly applicable critical and creative thinking skills, as opposed to more technical or professional pursuits which were and continue to be increasingly specialized in medicine, law, business/finance/accounting, engineering or the hard sciences.
But, that hasn't been true in a long time. The humanities and social sciences are absolutely eaten up with political correctness and straight up Marxism. The universities were infiltrated by fellow travelers as far back as the late 50s. By the 1970s they had the public primary and secondary schools. Today, there isn't a single facet of our educational system that remains untainted by their ilk.
As a holder of a social science and professional degree from LSU, my "abstract logic" skills allow me to conclude this guy is a blathering idiot.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:11 pm to teke184
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Woman’s Studies doesn’t teach you how to write SQL queries or debug Visual Basic.
SQL sucks. The only time I mess with SQL is when I'm crafting SQL injection attacks.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:12 pm to CptBengal
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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban argued that if AI will soon be able to program itself to automate both algorithmic and cognitive tasks predominately within STEM fields, then what good would a degree in these fields be worth if human skills are no longer needed?
Consulting work, dipshit.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:12 pm to CptBengal
I spit my drink out at work. This is hilarious
CptBengal, you’re a legend.
This post was edited on 11/9/18 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:13 pm to Centinel
Doing shite nobody likes is job security.
You’d be surprised how highly COBOL training is despite the Y2K bug being passed since so many legacy systems use some form of it.
Know that and VB pretty much got me hired.
You’d be surprised how highly COBOL training is despite the Y2K bug being passed since so many legacy systems use some form of it.
Know that and VB pretty much got me hired.
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:13 pm to CptBengal
My International Politics & Law undergraduate degree from LSU in 1989 has paid off handsomely for me.
#MayISupersizeThatOrderforyou,Sir?
#MayISupersizeThatOrderforyou,Sir?
Posted on 11/9/18 at 2:16 pm to CptBengal
Abstract logic over concrete skills
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