STEM education is super duper duper important. Don’t get me wrong. But what would we do with the great innovations of great engineers if we didn’t also have great minds figuring out how to implement, distribute, and market them, create the organizations and businesses and value chains needed to deploy them? Are our schools creating the types of people capable of making good on that potential? Check out this article in the atlantic to understand why calls for better STEM education should be accompanied by calls for empathy education.
