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In reply to the discussion: 1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Your proposal is based on the hypothesis that we can see into the future. We can't. We cannot know for sure that we will want or need more scientists than linguists and teachers in the future.
In fact, in my opinion, one of the reasons that so few Americans go into science, math and engineering is that those subjects are so poorly presented to our children.
And those subjects are poorly presented because many of the scientists and mathematicians in our society do not communicate well. They don't know how to tell a story. They don't know how to make science into a story that relates to the life of the child, to the child's imagination.
When science is presented to children through communication that is child-friendly, a child likes science. I know children for whom that was the case.
My science teachers were droning bores. No wonder I did not choose to study science.