A Pedagogical and Semantic Abomination - "STEAM"

[DGS49]

In recent years, the acronym "STEM" has arisen to group together academic studies which feature quantitative knowledge of factual and scientific material, to wit, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. One might say, subjects where the teacher never utters the words, 'There are no wrong answers on this test.'

Now we have a semantic rebellion by - I hate to say it - Public School Academe to PERVERT and render meaningless this simple, clear acronym.

Now we read of, "STEAM." Seriously. And what is the added subject? ART!

ART!

Can you fucking believe it???!

They want to add ART to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, as though ART were a subject of quantitive study.

See the title of this thread. STEAM is a pedagogical and semantic abomination, about which Academe - if it were capable of shame - should be ashamed. It is the equivalent of citing the great composers, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Tiny Tim.

 

[Marion Morrison]

That is retarded! What about that "sides of the brain" stuff?

 

[Unkotare]

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Now we read of, "STEAM." Seriously. ...

I told you this over a year ago.

 

[DGS49]

Dang! I mustn't have been paying attention!

 

[Unkotare]

It makes perfect sense to emphasize the vital importance of higher education in the fields of math and engineering, but this is now swung so far the other way that the knee-jerk hostility toward arts and humanities suggests that a lot of people don’t quite understand or perhaps have forgotten part of the significance of higher education.

 

[Unkotare]

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