Every day the world gets bigger and bolder with more innovations and technology. Major fields like Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math have so much room to grow. Despite the growth of these geeks, we have forgotten the country is built on nerds. Nerds who started with humanities and grew from there. In response STEM is created to prepare young adults to think only on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. These pupils are taught to be teachers, leaders, investors and researchers who fix the nation's and world's challenges. In Yo-Yo Ma’s essay Behind the Cello, he wants to “add the empathetic reasoning of the arts to the mix” of adding humanities and arts to the STEM program making it into STEAM (Ma). At Florida Atlantic University
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Empathy — a concept learned in these Humanities classes — is described as looking through the eyes of another's soul. Just being in their shoes is not enough, you have to feel the same and think the same. Using this skill set with others can ultimately give you an inside look into this person which could help you in more than just the business world. As a teen, I wasn't emotional or rather was unsure on how to express them. When I entered my first high school English class we read Night by Elie Wiesel, the first book to give the urge for empathy. In awe of the pure, detailed and dark descriptions of his journey. Our teacher would make us write summaries of every chapter in 1st person of 2 to 3 characters. From there I felt I had three lives, my own omniscience watching events unfold, Elie himself watching his world become something out of a horror story and as his father watching a nation crumble. His words would speak to me with this colorful, yet sensitive candor that made me listen more. For the first time, I even cried while reading, I had developed an empathy with the help of a regular book. Stories like this, will not be taught in the college STEM program because it has nothing to do with their
Empathy — a concept learned in these Humanities classes — is described as looking through the eyes of another's soul. Just being in their shoes is not enough, you have to feel the same and think the same. Using this skill set with others can ultimately give you an inside look into this person which could help you in more than just the business world. As a teen, I wasn't emotional or rather was unsure on how to express them. When I entered my first high school English class we read Night by Elie Wiesel, the first book to give the urge for empathy. In awe of the pure, detailed and dark descriptions of his journey. Our teacher would make us write summaries of every chapter in 1st person of 2 to 3 characters. From there I felt I had three lives, my own omniscience watching events unfold, Elie himself watching his world become something out of a horror story and as his father watching a nation crumble. His words would speak to me with this colorful, yet sensitive candor that made me listen more. For the first time, I even cried while reading, I had developed an empathy with the help of a regular book. Stories like this, will not be taught in the college STEM program because it has nothing to do with their