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Is There a Humanities Education in Silicon Valley?
Sally Kohn: It seems there's more movement away from a well rounded humanities based education around this to something that's more like boot camps and code camps. Is that something you're seeing maybe in the younger employees that these companies are concerned about? And how do you reconcile such an emphasis on STEM with how any awareness of the other side of things can be beneficial for society, she asks. She says what literature gives you is the ability to step into the mind of other people, and other cultures, and experience things that otherwise would be unreachable to you.