YMB #86 Liberal Arts in the Age of Stem: A Conversation with Martin Cothran

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows that we should focus our educational efforts on teaching kids skills they can actually use in real life, right? Except maybe that is not the best path to the most practical education after all. Yes, a classical education can build virtue, but it also creates the best employees for the modern world.

Need convincing? Then you are going to enjoy this interview with Martin Cothran of Memoria Press. You may learn something new about the term "liberal arts" and might just walk away convinced that STEM is not necessarily where we should focus. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What the tech industry needs is people who can interpret the data, people who can say what it means.
0:07.7	And that's not a technical skill.
0:09.9	That's a skill you get from being broadly educated.
0:18.7	This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day.
0:31.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 86 of the Your Morning Basket podcast.
0:37.3	I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I am so happy
0:39.8	that you are joining me here today. Well, today's episode of the podcast is one of those that
0:45.7	did not go the way I expected. I thought I knew in my head exactly what this conversation was
0:53.5	going to be about.
0:54.7	But I learned so much from Martin Cothran during the course of this podcast.
1:00.7	It really made me think.
1:02.5	We defined a few terms.
1:04.0	And it just kind of switched some of my ideas around to a new way of thinking.
1:10.3	It was so interesting. One of the terms that we
1:13.4	define is liberal arts. And I thought I knew where Martin was going with this one and he went
1:19.6	somewhere else. So this was a really great learning podcast for me, one of those that I'm going
1:25.4	to tuck away and remember as I go forward.
1:28.9	So I think you're really going to enjoy this episode of the podcast.
1:33.6	We talk about why a broader education is better than a narrow education.
1:39.8	And with the focus on STEM these days, they're narrowing down education, making it more vocational.
1:46.8	And Martin gives us some great examples from his own family of why a broader education is better.
1:53.1	I think you're really going to enjoy this one. And it's going to spark some conversation.
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