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Q: STEM, Education in China, and the Spiritus Mundi
-We are seeing a call for a focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) especially in the United States.
-On the other hand classical education was liberal, a little Latin, a foreign language, history and Plato.
-China, Korea, and Japan like rote memorization, objectivity, and math. They excel at it, and are studying in America and the UK.
-These countries have traditionally had little use for "abstract thought" and are notorious for social conservatism and 'mothballs'.
-Now granted some might say Hamlet is less important than say, Calculus, or Physics is more important than History, but at the end of the day, is all education purely vocational, ie to get a job?
-Ask your students what they want from life? A good job! Money! A sexy wife!
-Ask Jesus, Plato, or Kant, or even Nietzsche, what do they say?
-As the West abandons their tradition to compete with China, will it lose all that was once of value? Are we throwing out the baby with the bath water?
8 years 26 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
You forgot to factor in "its not what you know, but rather who you know."
silverbutton1:
@Shining_Brow. Ya, definitely that too ! (its been said that the practice is so flagrant in the entertainment industry).
Most of my students aren't looking for a sexy wife... perhaps because they're female heterosexuals!!!
