Colleges are reuniting the humanities and the sciences
C.P. Snow, the British scientist and novelist, sounded the alarm in the 1950s about the dangers of two cultures: "Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists." Since then, microchips, satellites and nuclear power have become realities that define everyday life; yet many supposedly well-educated people do not understand how they work. Despite the growing use of computers in classrooms, American universities are still graduating millions of technological illiterates.
What Snow called a "gulf of mutual incomprehension" yawns ever wider, according to Stanford Engineering Professor...
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