The Pros And Cons Of STEM Education

Adnan Basic Fareed Zakaria’s article is all about STEM Education, and how it could be hurting the American education system. STEM education is the belief that students should primarily focus on four mains topics in school if they want the best chance to succeed later in life. Those subjects are science, technology, education, and mathematics. This change was made to try and boost the academic scores of American students in standardized tests, which had fallen far behind scores of international kids. This ideal, however, has problems of its own. STEM focused education does not best suit the modern day student, and will end up doing more harm than good.
The main problem with STEM education is that is makes students quite narrow minded learners. Once they get into the groove of only learning about certain subjects, it will only become much harder to understand different concepts later in life. However, a student who is constantly taking on new and different material will have their brain grow as they learn more and more. Sooner or later, these kids will have to learn about different subjects when they get older, so …show more content…
Now, this might initially seem like an advantage to STEM education, as most jobs come from one of those subject. However, this mentality is a bit flawed. Although we want to believe everyone in school will grow up to work at their dream job, that just isn’t the case with most students. This is the problem with STEM education. Imagine a kid who spends all their time focusing on engineering, only to find out they have no jobs available for them out of college. As all they know if engineering, they will suffer to find employment that they can somehow link to engineering. General education allows kids to know as much about as many things as they can. This leads to workers to are versatile, and can hop from one job to another without much