When people say STEAM they're really transparently just saying "everything but the liberal arts", like for them the A means artists who make stuff they can sell This is also the ugly side of the way people use the word "Maker"https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1259916685710176258 …
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I still constantly reference DFW, an extremely famous graduate of a creative writing workshop and teacher of such workshops, saying we don't need more of those, we need better literature classes
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Everyone should learn how to read books before they even think about taking a class to write books It's not that that's a better way to become a writer It's that learning to be a reader is MORE IMPORTANT than being a writer
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It's not that big a deal if we don't have more writers Lots of successful, happy, decent people aren't writers That's fine It's not fine - for our country, for our culture, for us as a people - if they can't read
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"STEAM" as a movement isn't subtle at all about positioning itself as a contrast to "ivory tower" studies Always the emphasis on *skills*, on *product* What can you make, what can you sell, how can you get hired
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And, like, it ought to fucking terrify you People going to college with this plan to get a degree in working on political campaigns No, you should just be taking classes on history, and *learning about politics* for its own sake, before you decide you want to work on anything
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People wanting to major in "business" and thinking that's better than having a general understanding of "economics" as an ivory tower discipline "I don't want to know about how what I do affects the world, I just want to do it"
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Intentionally trying to become more powerful and yet more stupid in equal degrees Professionalization without knowing what it is your profession professes - without ever asking "Why" A society flooring the gas while covering up the windshield and taking its hands off the wheel
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