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

1 points by J0_k3r ↗ HN
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.

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AnimalMuppet
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
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
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?
J0_k3r
I can be less miserable perfectly fine without taking some dumb course on literature.