janeruffino
Recovering archaeologist and CMO of @loopfiftyfour. Tech columnist for @sundaybusiness Cake enabler. Startup witch. Radio slacker. Puppy superfan.
What I Worry About When I Worry About STEM
Are we training our future employees, or are we educating our present and future citizens?My first year as a university tutor in archaeology, I had a student who was a retired engineer. A month into term, he complained that the course was too hard. He’d spent his whole life knowing — not believing, but knowing — that arts degrees were a joke. I thought he was saying that he was being unexpectedly challenged, but he was accusing me of making it harder because I didn’t want to admit it was society’s fluff.janeruffino5 min read