Ask HN: What improvements would you make to the education system?

1 points by J0_k3r 5 years ago | 4 comments

I'll start by giving an improvement I've thought of:

Combine trade schools and STEM into one institution and remove the humanities from it and make it so that you can start specializing earlier (having more trades and college-level math and science in high school) and make it so that you can do a law or medical degree instead of having to do a pre-law or pre-med degree.

AnimalMuppet 5 years ago |

The problem is, much more of a STEM career involves people than you would expect. In my 20s, I didn't care. People got in the way; science and technology were what mattered! Now I know better. People really matter.

Humanities might help people get that. (Don't ask me whether they will, I CLEPed out of mine.) I don't know if an intro-to-anything humanities class can give STEM people what they need. I do know, however, that STEM people need something.

J0_k3r 5 years ago | |

I disagree completely and think the reverse. It's the humanities people who don't know the first thing about science or technology. It's not my fault that management is always full of incompetents

AnimalMuppet 5 years ago | | |

It may not be your fault, but it's still your reality. You either learn how to work reasonably well with people, or your career is going to be miserable. Would you rather blame someone else for your misery? Or would you prefer to learn how to be less miserable?