Lessons of an MIT Education
The author was quite harsh on the soft sciencies and humanities and I&#x27;m going to attempt a defense. First, he characterises these subjects as merely what, facts to be learned, instead of how, skills to be mastered.<p>Let&#x27;s take history, which seems very what, full of dates and names. A great course in history teaches you how to think differently and with deeper context about world events and your country&#x27;s politics.<p>I suggest that a society only interested in the workings of machines rather than the workings of people will soon treat people as mere machines. Let the nightmare begin.