Not sure how you could read a story about people becoming more-sensitive to other's concerns, while remaining equally-good at engineering, as the engineering "protecting" them from being more-sensitive to other's concerns.
Compassion for those with challenges in our society is orthogonal to expertise in professions, is my experience. An article in The Atlantic interviewed those with and without college degrees and didn't find much difference in "wokeness":
I think it's quite right that kids are more resistant to this indoctrination than we give them credit for. But some learners are very deferential to authority: if it's in the course book, they're inclined to believe it. But there's also the broader opportunity cost. If you're spending your time teaching intelligent design, you're not doing something else. And, finally, adopting this kind of regimented curriculum forces out good teachers who know better. And losing good teachers is arguably the worst thing for an education system.
I suspect that the need to master the concrete and measurable realities of the material world, confers a degree of immunity to the “woke narrative”.
Not sure how you could read a story about people becoming more-sensitive to other's concerns, while remaining equally-good at engineering, as the engineering "protecting" them from being more-sensitive to other's concerns.
Compassion for those with challenges in our society is orthogonal to expertise in professions, is my experience. An article in The Atlantic interviewed those with and without college degrees and didn't find much difference in "wokeness":
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/11/young-people-college-grads-wokeness/620674/
...only by age.
I think it's quite right that kids are more resistant to this indoctrination than we give them credit for. But some learners are very deferential to authority: if it's in the course book, they're inclined to believe it. But there's also the broader opportunity cost. If you're spending your time teaching intelligent design, you're not doing something else. And, finally, adopting this kind of regimented curriculum forces out good teachers who know better. And losing good teachers is arguably the worst thing for an education system.