<p>I was a math major, and married a biology major, and one of my kids is likely going to be a chemistry or a neuroscience major, so it’s hardly as though I’m against STEM. </p>
<p>I do think that for the vast majority of people, the emphasis on higher-level calculus is silly – statistics is far more useful, and I think the whole concept of thinking that STEM should be "pushed’ any more than English, language, history, humanities is completely asinine, as it’s all important.</p>