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Essentially what this means to me, is that it is very important to have a diverse education that includes acquiring skills related to both quantitative and qualitative reasoning. I feel like emphasizing a diverse education in the humanities and sciences (the "two cultures") is imperative. Throughout my entire academic career I have been caught between the two cultures and I see the perils of being on either polarized end of the cultures. People in my humanities courses would be fearful of science and math; and people in my science courses were the worst writers and quite sub-par critical thinkers (especially related to important socio-political and historical issues.