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Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2011 03:49:08PM 0 points [-]

Actually, I was never saying that we shouldn't learn about science or any other "areas describing objective reality." I love science myself. I just think that we shouldn't focus on these areas exclusively, like many schools do now. For example, I think that an engineer who loves listening to music all day should at least learn the basic theory of how music works, so that he can appreciate it more intellectually and understand it better. Why should we choose to understand some aspects of life and not others?

Comment author: Jack 19 October 2011 05:19:26PM 4 points [-]

Many schools focus on science and math exclusively? I don't believe that is at all true-- even for science and technology magnet programs.