Why is it important to excite students about math, science & technology?
We live in world where you need analytic skills to survive and do well. In the past, women did one kind of manual labor and men in blue collar jobs did another kind. These days almost any job that doesn’t require thinking has been either eliminated entirely by technology or replaced by a machine. The repetitive work that people used to do in factories is being done by machines or robots. You look around the world and almost any job that’s worth having — that can earn serious money, that can be intellectually stimulating — requires a fairly sophisticated kind of thinking. That’s exciting in one sense because it means that people don’t have to look forward to jobs that are drudgery. It’s also scary in some cases, because if you don’t develop analytical skills, there aren’t too many jobs left for you. But this is something that is important not just to individuals, but also to society. In what way? Young people with these skills will create things, whether it’s science, technology solutio
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