Souter warned of the lack of civic education as well. We are just ignorant all around these days!

“An ignorant people can never remain a free people. Democracy cannot survive too much ignorance.”

“I don’t believe there is any problem of American politics in American public life which is more significant today than the pervasive civic ignorance of the Constitution of the United States and the structure of government.”

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lvspiff 4 days ago | parent [-]

Theres such a huge focus on STEM yet i rarely see the scientific method or critical thinking and logic being taught. Its like forming your own ideas is no longer a thing and so long as you have the solution you wont need anything original

I see it growing worse in my job where newer staff rarely can come up with new ideas and the older staff are having to hand hold them. They have trouble even stating the problem at times just “i dont know how to fix any of it”. Eventually the solution is either crazy convoluted (a factory for a class for a static function that returns a string of static json) or just crazy in general (let me put this json into an env variable so its now its available global)

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Avshalom 4 days ago | parent [-]

Partly this because there was never a focus on STEM there is a focus on a limited subset of T and E that businesses find profitable.

Even then, you need history and philosophy of science classes to actually contextualize and contrast "scientific thinking" to actually get people to go engage with science as an ongoing endeavor rather than a series of concepts from a text book that must be memorized and mastered.

	▲	ethbr1 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		+1. I learned more about what parent is talking about in my philosophy / epistemology courses than STEM ones.