My career is in Computers, I have a Physics degree, and have also completed required university coursework in Biology and Chemistry including memorization of the complete periodic table. I completely endorse this stance.
I have a mechanical engineering degree and currently teach high school physics, chemistry, biology and earth science, and I also completely endorse this stance.
> Insofar as young people today, especially college educated young people, are pro-socialist and anti-capitalist, there is a frightening possibility that the 21st century could see a repeat of the Marxist nightmare of the 20th century. For that reason alone, young people should learn the foundations of progress.
Very much agreed. Surveys of the young are frightening in their level of support for totalitarian policies. I agree that showing the amount of progress and the mechanism by which it was achieved or suppressed is a key component of combating this mind virus.
I humbly suggest adding Basic Economics to round out the inoculation. It offers an important instruction about how the world works. Even better, it's interesting to read.
Absolutely. The reason it wasn't mentioned here is that we have a full year Humanities course in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in which we read Smith, Hazlitt, Hayek, Sowell, etc. So econ is part of the Socratic Humanities strand rather than the STEM strand, though it could be in either.
I wish I had this education. And I'm excited when I reflect how thia exists. There's no reason this doesn't scale, and of anything out competes it, the better the world will be.
> But What About Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
My career is in Computers, I have a Physics degree, and have also completed required university coursework in Biology and Chemistry including memorization of the complete periodic table. I completely endorse this stance.
I have a mechanical engineering degree and currently teach high school physics, chemistry, biology and earth science, and I also completely endorse this stance.
> Insofar as young people today, especially college educated young people, are pro-socialist and anti-capitalist, there is a frightening possibility that the 21st century could see a repeat of the Marxist nightmare of the 20th century. For that reason alone, young people should learn the foundations of progress.
Very much agreed. Surveys of the young are frightening in their level of support for totalitarian policies. I agree that showing the amount of progress and the mechanism by which it was achieved or suppressed is a key component of combating this mind virus.
I humbly suggest adding Basic Economics to round out the inoculation. It offers an important instruction about how the world works. Even better, it's interesting to read.
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465060730
Absolutely. The reason it wasn't mentioned here is that we have a full year Humanities course in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) in which we read Smith, Hazlitt, Hayek, Sowell, etc. So econ is part of the Socratic Humanities strand rather than the STEM strand, though it could be in either.
I wish I had this education. And I'm excited when I reflect how thia exists. There's no reason this doesn't scale, and of anything out competes it, the better the world will be.