#372 The Unchristian Roots of STEM Education - William Fahey

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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To lure parents who want their kids to be competitive in a high-tech society, some Catholic schools promote themselves vigorously as providing a top-notch STEM education. But just how compatible is the STEM mentality with Catholic ideas about formation and education? Dr. William Fahey, President of New Hampshire’s Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, joins us to explain why the Catholic educational tradition is better for students than STEM training. NOTE FROM HOST: Dr. Fahey and I both used the word “Medicine” instead of “Math” as the last word in the STEM acronym. This use is uncommon,...

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0:00.0	Is there a conflict between STEM education and Catholic faith?
0:03.5	Dr. William Fahey, next.
0:10.2	Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast
0:13.2	for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith.
0:16.4	If you're watching us now on YouTube or Facebook,
0:18.9	you see that we have a new layer.
0:21.2	Welcome into the Catholic Answers Focus layer.
0:23.8	This episode, we talk a bit about STEM education.
0:27.1	Dr. William Fahey is the president of Thomas Moore College
0:30.4	in New Hampshire.
0:31.4	A liberal arts Catholic college founded in 1978
0:35.0	and devoted to the more traditional Catholic ways
0:38.6	of education.
0:39.2	So I thought it would be a good opportunity
0:40.6	to talk about STEM.
0:42.2	We see more and more Catholic schools promoting themselves
0:45.1	as also being STEM schools.
0:47.8	What is STEM?
0:49.1	And is there a conflict between STEM education
0:52.0	and Catholic education?
0:53.2	That's what we asked Dr. William Fahey,
0:55.2	and this is what he had to say.
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