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From a Scientist - 2009-09-01

Liam: I agree with your sentiment posted above regarding typographical errors. I was educated and trained as a research scientist. I am a product of an older program than STEM. You may not know of it. It was called SPUTNIK. It was a Russian satellite and I watched it in the evening skies with my father from my back yard in suburban Cleveland Ohio. After we watched SPUTNIK go over, my Mom and Dad went to my school for PTA Parent Teachers Association meetings along with every other parent on my street and demanded science, math and engineering for their children. My father and his brothers are all engineers as are my cousins. So, STEM is nothing new. It seems that whenever our country is afraid and fear-mongering runs rampant, Science Math and engineering are embraced as the panacea. Fortunately Liam, the University I attended had science education bundled into a College of Arts and Sciences and I was required to study music, art, architecture, philosophy, and GEOGRAPHY. I did my first independent study as an undergraduate with a geography professor I liked, even though I was a science major. I love geography and philosophy and hate typographical errors and believe students should be well rounded. Most scientists after doing science for a while, turn to philosophy in many ways.

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