Magnolia Sitter has linked to this very interesting article. The double standard of engineering students who don't like humanities versus humanities students who don't like math or science is especially interesting.
Also interesting to me is that in medieval education, the trivium and quadrivium consisted of grammar, logic, and rhetoric; and arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, respectively. Of the seven courses in the original liberal arts curriculum, two were explicitly mathematical and three were closely related to mathematics.
To paraphrase Robert Anton Wilson, "Some people at the university specialized in manipulating mathematical symbols, others in verbal ones. Because the people who manipulated verbal symbols were better with language, they got to define themselves as the intellectuals."
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