Studying math and physics does impart you with a certain problem-solving mindset and scientific rigor, which you retain long after you've forgotten every theorem and equation
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Likewise studying humanities is not about remembering facts and names (albeit having historical and cultural context about the world we live in is deeply valuable), it is mostly about learning to think
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Send your first tweet to the French (former) minister of education Luc Ferry, who just said today that maths is completely useless in daily life https://www.lci.fr/politique/video-luc-ferry-dans-la-vie-quotidienne-les-maths-ne-servent-strictement-a-rien-2078839.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter … And your second tweet to the Japanese minister of said similar things about humanities depts. in universities.
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@L_badikho "chips!"
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Yes, and ideally you'd want to see people who are proficient in many types of reasoning, mathematical, artistic, ethics. For very bad reasons most Universities keep denying this and continue to isolate and specialise depriving people and society of integrative reason
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Any quote with this idea?
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You're definitely my favorite person to follow on Twitter in the tech/research community.
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Similarly, there’s a lot more to a Biology or Computer Science degree than learning to code or pipette. Critical thinking is much harder to learn but also much harder to forget.
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