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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A quick scan of the comments is urging kids to major in practical, hard, quantitative fields, but then says there's no use majoring in hard sciences because it's meaningless, that business is all getting replaced by AI, that all humanities are useless, and that social sciences is DEI. So I guess we should all just give up and become plumbers? How about this: Kids should work hard and pursue the life of the mind in math, science, and the arts, and will then be the well-rounded, competent-at-many-things managers and leaders we have so few of. The reductionist hysteria around the funding cuts, the STEM panic, DEI, etc. has got to stop. Let's make the academy a place of learning, with a healthy dose of realism (acknowledge people need to make money), and move forward.[/quote]

As a south Asian American, I recognize a lot of the comments - they are likely Indian or Chinese immigrants - the CS or bust crew. It's a limiting view of the world and based on what they know. Their kids won't be leaders - they are training them to be worker bees. It's a very un-American mindset.

Agree with you on a well-rounded liberal arts education (guess what - math is liberal arts!!)[/quote]

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