can we believe what we see?, page-9

Whoever it was that 'led the charge against the universities, the humanities' gets the gold medal in my book.

The unis are where it has all gone wrong to begin with. I'm talking about something broader and deeper than just Lib/Lab politics at play - this is primarily a political/philosophical problem affecting the West.

Compare the "organising ethos" (a term used by Charlie Munger) of a humanities faculty vs. a STEM faculty. One is riddled with ideology and the 'flavour of the decade'; the other is constructed on foundations that get stronger every century, every decade, every year with testable knowledge, rationality and rigour.

Put another away, the critical thinker - statistically - will more likely emerge from the engineering faculty than from the sociology department.

Not sure if we're talking about two different things, Scott.