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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“For undergraduate STEM education leading to a job, maybe they were correct.“

The STEM fanatics are nowhere near as obnoxious as Mr. Wall Street, but they are inching in that direction. Do they not have the saying “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” in the DMV?

If you love Amherst you probably didn’t also apply to CalTech or Wharton. They know what they are getting there, & are smart enough to know it’s not a vocational degree. So everybody can just stop with the attempts to shame the OP for not sending her kid to school to learn a trade. They learn how to think deeply, read between the lines, & write precisely at places like Amherst & Williams—probably better than at any other schools in the country, including Ivies. And those kinds of skills can be applied almost anywhere, as opposed to the sliver of specialized expertise some people here prefer. 
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You can gain those skills but also gain ones that lead to direct employment also, such as a top STEM education.  They are not mutually exclusive.[/quote]

My workplace is filled with people who have top STEM degrees (doctors and engineers and pharmacists etc).  For the most part they do not have non-STEM skills (thinking, writing, etc).  [/quote]

You can teach STEM people to write, but you cannot teach soft majors STEM, because it takes a much higher level of aptitude.  People who don't get calculus will never 'get it', and it gets a lot worse the more advanced you get.[/quote]

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