The Importance of Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education

Sally Kohn: I'm hearing so much in your expanding my imagination. So let me start with the first thing that I heard was this tension between STEM fields, which we tend to think about as more concrete, like you said. And then sometimes the humanities, we think about just being more about theoretical and these amorphous things. But yet if you think about the ways that we might benefit if we were to take that theoretical and make it a bit more practical, she says. She thinks there's huge value in encouraging people to commit to one agree definition of something.