Archive for August, 2007
Perhaps we need a better line of STEM cells?
Yazan: John Holzmann | 15 August 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Homeschool News
As with all education reforms, the STEM-winders mean well. They reason that India and China will eat America’s lunch unless we boost our young people’s prowess in the STEM fields. But these enthusiasts don’t understand that what makes Americans competitive on a shrinking, globalizing planet isn’t out-gunning Asians at technical skills. Rather, it’s our people’s creativity, versatility, imagination, restlessness, energy, ambition, and problem-solving prowess.
True success over the long haul–economic success, civic success, cultural success, domestic success, national defense success–depends on a broadly educated populace with flowers and leaves as well as stems. That’s what equips us to invent and imagine and grow one business line into another. It’s also how we acquire qualities and abilities that aren’t easily “outsourced” to Guangzhou or Hyderabad.
