[vineyardmike]

Did you read the article? As it highlights elegantly, "liberal arts" is about the educational methodology and structure, not the course material. You can learn STEM subjects in a liberal arts education.

> fairly easily... not so easy.

Yea, totally, STEM majors are inherently special and better at learning ;)

[WalterBright]

> STEM majors are inherently special and better at learning

I learned how to learn by going through STEM.

Also, STEM produces right and wrong answers. If the airplane you design doesn't fly, you cannot pretend that it is flying.

That isn't true with liberal arts. Any failure can be explained away.

[SanjayMehta]

STEM majors are inherently better overall. Are you trying to be sarcastic or funny? I can't tell.

I've yet to find a liberal arts grad who even knows what a partial differential equation is.

[defrost]

You might need to get out more, many BAs understand what differential equations are.

  He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1890 and graduated in 1893 with a Bachelor of Arts.

  At Cambridge, Russell was introduced to philosophy 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

[WalterBright]

My college econ textbook went through a couple pages of math. I read through it and realized they were showing how to do a derivative, without using any of the usual nomenclature for calculus.

It was clear the authors did not expect the econ students to know calculus, and they obfuscated the calculus so they would not scare the students off.

[SanjayMehta]

Never met him. Have you?

[defrost]

You'd have to be about my age or older to have met him, and, at least according to my mother, I did meet him in Wales and was bounced on his knee. Go figure.

I learnt more about his work from his successors who were / are a mix of philosophy and mathematics majors, the majority fully aware of partial differential equations at the very least.

Of the people my age, there are folks such as Dominic Hyde who majored in liberal arts while studying both math and physics alongside Jerome Gauntlett (who did not major in liberal arts .. although he has acted alongside Nicole Kidman) and others. They all grok PDEs.

Closer to our mutual "home", HN on ycombinator, I understand that Paul Graham, the forum founder and co-creator of the Arc programming language, is yet another liberal arts major who understands what PDE's are.

* https://hpi.uq.edu.au/profile/388/dominic-hyde

* https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/j.gauntlett

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

It's a wide world, get out and meet more people.

[vineyardmike]

> Are you trying to be sarcastic or funny? I can't tell.

Take a liberal arts class and your reading comprehension may improve.

> knows what a partial differential equation is.

I’ve met a few but tbh that’s a pretty weird way to judge “inherently better”.