Change in General Studies

AS LONG AGO as 1951, and almost certainly much earlier, voices were raised that humane or liberal studies should be included in technical education. In an article that year, the writer pleaded for a union between the social sciences and technological education. He argued that the teacher of economics or sociology should provide the social framework of engineering or building. A Unesco report claimed that “the right method was for cultural studies to grow naturally out of the subject matter of technical training.”