Question: Why do you prefer Science and other STEM subjects over humanities such as History and English?

I’m generally interested about just about everything, particularly if the person teaching it loves their subject and is passionate about it. I loved and still love, history, but not the way it was taught in school. Episodic, isolated, devoid of context. English was similar, there’s nothing like dissecting a text, line by line, word by word, for weeks on end to rob of all feeling and joy. Geography and economics I was very fond of. I won prizes for economics and captained the school’s geography team. I would have loved to continue to study these, but at each stage we’re asked to narrow our focus, become ever more specialised. With science it was just easier to see a way forward. The jobs, the career, the life it would lead to, the greater certainty of finding a place in the world doing something I enjoyed. When it came to the time I needed to decide what my future would look like, I chose the future I could see, learning from the teachers most able to convey their own love of the subjects. Mr. Oliver’s love of dramatic demonstrations, Mr. Porteous’s love of rocks and minerals. Mrs Ambrose and her bees, Mrs. Heaton and her astronomy, Mr Maclaren who reminded me of Beaker…
With different teachers, with different advice, with a different vision, well, the outcome might have been very different.