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DeSoya · 06-10-2002, 02:23 PM

So this news op showed up in the local paper today
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...193455,00.html

It's all about the lack of science/math/engineering students. My question is: Where are they all going and why?

My first answer is that they are all going to disciplines such as computer science, business and some of the "soft sciences" such as Psychology and Sociology (You know, the classes whose books always take the first chapter to convince you that they are indeed a science

). Also associates degree schools (is that the right term?) such as DeVry are taking students and giving them technical degrees instead of real 'thinking' degrees, which further limits innovations in the science fields. In essence it's as if we, through economic driven specialization (into the computer based fields), are limiting scientific creativity. Or maybe it all starts at the grade schools with bad teachers. Since I was thinking about maybe becoming an educator (a math teacher to be exact) I find this second idea rather worrisome. What does IW think?

DeSoya

06-10-2002, 02:23 PM	#1
DeSoya Manshoon Join Date: March 27, 2002 Location: Boulder, CO Age: 45 Posts: 199	So this news op showed up in the local paper today http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...193455,00.html It's all about the lack of science/math/engineering students. My question is: Where are they all going and why? My first answer is that they are all going to disciplines such as computer science, business and some of the "soft sciences" such as Psychology and Sociology (You know, the classes whose books always take the first chapter to convince you that they are indeed a science ). Also associates degree schools (is that the right term?) such as DeVry are taking students and giving them technical degrees instead of real 'thinking' degrees, which further limits innovations in the science fields. In essence it's as if we, through economic driven specialization (into the computer based fields), are limiting scientific creativity. Or maybe it all starts at the grade schools with bad teachers. Since I was thinking about maybe becoming an educator (a math teacher to be exact) I find this second idea rather worrisome. What does IW think? DeSoya __________________ \"We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn\'t have to stop there.\" <br />Dana Gould