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Anonymous wrote:Pointing to examples of people with humanities degrees who are successful, and then generalizing from that, is about the level of argumentation I would expect from a humanities major. There are plenty of smokers who live to 90, maybe you should do that too.

Smoke or live to 90? Your poor, non-humanities writing makes your point unclear.

Oh thank you. Now maybe I can get a humanities major to explain to me what “pedantic” means.

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Anonymous wrote:I've had a son and daughter at good single sex schools. The all-boys school emphasized professionalism and career prospects. Many of its graduates selected engineering, CS, and econ as prospective majors.

For the all-women's school there was much more emphasis on self-discovery and self-care, not on professional skills. And it was a progressive women's high school.

I think we're still socializing our children of different genders very differently.

We're not "socializing" them this way. We are acknowledging their inherent differences. Which you obviously agree with, or you wouldn't have chosen single sex schools for both of them.

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Anonymous wrote:This isn't hard. A lot of boys just prefer math. They use a different part of their brains. Boys typically scorer higher in math than in English on the SATs.

Male thinking is generally black and white, which is what math is. While they may do well in humanities subjects, they aren't as interested in subjects that require introspection. They just want to do things, problem solve, not sit there and contemplate.

Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it's true for most boys.

Math is not black and white at all.
-Mathematician

math is black and white in that the answer is either right or wrong. The answer is not subjective, like humanities.

Anonymous wrote:Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pointing to examples of people with humanities degrees who are successful, and then generalizing from that, is about the level of argumentation I would expect from a humanities major. There are plenty of smokers who live to 90, maybe you should do that too.

Smoke or live to 90? Your poor, non-humanities writing makes your point unclear.

Anonymous wrote:I've had a son and daughter at good single sex schools. The all-boys school emphasized professionalism and career prospects. Many of its graduates selected engineering, CS, and econ as prospective majors.

For the all-women's school there was much more emphasis on self-discovery and self-care, not on professional skills. And it was a progressive women's high school.

I think we're still socializing our children of different genders very differently.

Anonymous wrote:Will my son be able to attract a mate if he majors in the humanities?

Anonymous wrote:Boys are raised with the social expectation that they need to support their family. (And yes this is related to attracting a mate.) Girls are not. The question for me is why are there so many girls still attracted to the humanities, despite the economics? What aren’t we teaching them?

None of this is to suggest that the humanities should not be taught, even required. But I do think that girls excuse themselves from thinking through the economic implications of majoring in humanities in a way that boys do not. And that’s our fault.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't hard. A lot of boys just prefer math. They use a different part of their brains. Boys typically scorer higher in math than in English on the SATs.

Male thinking is generally black and white, which is what math is. While they may do well in humanities subjects, they aren't as interested in subjects that require introspection. They just want to do things, problem solve, not sit there and contemplate.

Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it's true for most boys.

Math is not black and white at all.
-Mathematician

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't hard. A lot of boys just prefer math. They use a different part of their brains. Boys typically scorer higher in math than in English on the SATs.

Male thinking is generally black and white, which is what math is. While they may do well in humanities subjects, they aren't as interested in subjects that require introspection. They just want to do things, problem solve, not sit there and contemplate.

Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it's true for most boys.

Math is not black and white at all.
-Mathematician

Anonymous wrote:This isn't hard. A lot of boys just prefer math. They use a different part of their brains. Boys typically scorer higher in math than in English on the SATs.

Male thinking is generally black and white, which is what math is. While they may do well in humanities subjects, they aren't as interested in subjects that require introspection. They just want to do things, problem solve, not sit there and contemplate.

Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it's true for most boys.