More on the emphasis on STEM -- people technically trained often realize, once successful in commercial organizations and government bureaucracies, that they have missed something. A system such as that of the Soviet Union tried to rush economic progress by putting technological progress above humanizing the society. Modernity is more than giant dams, factories and power plants, weapons systems, and huge blocks of standardized flats.
The worker knows that his tiny apartment is spartan in contrast to what he has seen of the West and knows that he must wait in queues for everything. The technically-trained, narrow specialist in developing an oil field or a weapons system recognizes that there is more to life than economic gain... and somehow he missed out on something. That is the Humanities.
The worker knows that his tiny apartment is spartan in contrast to what he has seen of the West and knows that he must wait in queues for everything. The technically-trained, narrow specialist in developing an oil field or a weapons system recognizes that there is more to life than economic gain... and somehow he missed out on something. That is the Humanities.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.