"You can give humanistic value to almost anything by teaching it historically. Geology, economics, mechanics, are humanities when taught with reference to the successive achievements of the geniuses to which these sciences owe their being. Not taught thus, literature remains grammar, art a catalogue, history a list of dates, and natural science a sheet of formulas and weights and measures."
-- William James, quoted in Jacques Barzun, The Culture We Deserve (Wesleyan University Press) p. 110.
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James makes a good point. Anyone who argues that STEM learning is the end-all be-all of educational goals should take a look at 'The Culture We Deserve'.
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