How STEM Education Might Be Failing Kids In America
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- America's future is in need of a return to what worked before.
STEM and specialized early child education often can't account for the radical changes the tech industry goes through year after year, and it's failing kids year after year because it fails to understand what children in America actually need to learn. Reform in the American Education system isn't working. And the way public math is broken will affect you and your children if something doesn't happen soon.
That's why Classical Education is so important to us. A return to the great tradition of education passed along to us over thousands of years creates an environment for children to recieve a real education, one that equips them with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, and builds within them the desire to learn, grow, and achieve great things.
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I’m watching your video and it feels so relieving and inspiring and motivating and energising and relaxing all at the same time to finally hear someone who speaks for me.
You say all the things I have been searching to know.
I got my bachelors degree in a STEM field at a public university. I only truly started learning until after I graduated.
I have been struggling with the choice of sending my future kindergartener to the new neighborhood STEM school, versus the private classical school 25 minutes away. This is giving me the clarity I needed. Thank you!
I'm a software developer at a big-name technology company. Many assume that communication skills and a well-formed mind are irrelevant to a career in the computer sciences - "I'm a programmer, who cares about history and Latin?" - but this couldn't be further from the truth. Even in the most technical, mathematical career, you'll succeed precisely because of your mastery of language and critical thinking skills. Edsger Dijkstra, a Dutch computer science pioneer (who wrote his papers with a fountain pen instead of a word processor!), said it best: "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer."
James V Schall's Another Sort of Learning or his shorter A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning are excellent complements for the parents of children using Memoria Press's program or the late middle school students or older. They expand on Martin's points exceptionally well, without pressing the STEM context. Written from a Roman Catholic perspective, but adaptable and true to any other Christian denomination.
This is so helpful to articulate the benefits of classical education… Latin in particular it’s been so hard to defend against STEM even in my homeschool to family members my own husband has graciously allowed me to buy things like prima Latina but he thinks I’m nuts lol thank you so much for this please keep making content on the benefits of Latin and forming a whole human ❤🙏📚
All of this should happen in the 1st 12 years.
College should specialize.
The study of liberal arts undoubtedly prepares you to develop in any field. A clear example is my husband. He studied Civil Engineering in Mathematics, not programming, but the systematic study of this liberal art has given him enough tools to learn any language programation, and even work in any area of STEM.
As parents, we are convinced that a classical education is the best for our children.
I adore so much about this video, but especially the sports analogy. It’s directly applicable to the pressure to force your children to choose their sport in elementary school so they can “stay competitive.” Yet, speaking about baseball specifically, what’s far more likely to happen to these young athletes is not only a disenchantment with something they used to do for fun but also a much higher risk of injury from sport-specific over training.
I blame, in part, John Dewey and his efforts. Oh, how little for the mind.
The solution that progressive educators are trying now to this problem is to make education as general as possible. Content is irrelevant; only “soft skills” or “general capabilities” matter. So, rather than teaching specific content, they say that we should be equipping students with critical thinking skills, communication skills, and so on. I’m afraid that - while we’ll intentioned - this also misses the mark.
Why is the speaker never identified?
Hey there! The speaker is Martin Cothran, a writer and editor at Memoria Press. There's a lower third with his name and the title of the talk at 33 seconds :)
Hope this helps!
Beautifully said ❤.
Glad you liked it!
I'm only part way through listening to Range on audiobook and it has so much good research into why a generalist (liberal arts) education is better at equipping people for success than a specialized approach. Classical education is absolutely the way to go when it comes to the bringing up of our children!
Actually, there's a STEM argument which would enhance the spiritual well-being of students, and prepare students -- arguably, better than Latin and Greek -- for lifelong learning and self-actualization.
That is, you can teach the history of science and mathematics. You'd be examining global history, since algebra was initiated by the Arabs, generalizing what they learned from the scholars of India. You'd be demonstrating the value of persistence in the face of disappointment -- study the biography of almost any great scientist, ever. You'd provide a foundation for an informed wonder at the magnificent complexity of the natural world, and preparing a student to continue that tradition of creative questioning.
I appreciate your positive view,@@user-xy7yp3xp3l ; however, in no way am I supportive of the "liberal education" which is the topic of the video -- which is to say, the framework of education based on classical antiquity, either in language or its literature.
Can liberal arts prepare u for tech job?
As if Math does not teach Critical Thinking skills
You need passion for stem just getting because it pays well doesn't make it
Latin is used in Exorcism
Daniel Gelernter - very fittingly, his last name means "learned" as in " a learned man".