Here is a conversation I had with my second daughter the other night.

Me: "I think the terms 'science' and 'liberal arts' are still around, but are the two still at odds with each other?"

Second daughter: "The word 'diversification' is getting blurred, but I don't think it changes the fact that 'science college students' are 'living in hell.'"

Me: "Well, even when I was a college student, science students thought 'liberal arts = stupid,' and liberal arts students professed that 'science = professional stupid.'"

Second daughter: "People in the humanities don't understand 'how great it is for a person in the sciences to advance to the next grade normally without any retention.'"

Me: "Well, at the time, I thought they didn't know that 'science majors are doing bi-weekly experiments and reports on the thesis-level work of humanities majors.'"

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Once, in college, I conversed with a humanities friend (female).

"I stayed up all night for three days to finish my thesis!"

But I remember I didn't know what to say to this phrase.

(1) "Heh, that's easy and nice"

(2) "Well, that was tough"

After all, that kind of all-night work was a regular occurrence every other week in the Faculty of Engineering.

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In conclusion, I guess that's what I'm saying,?

(1) The opposing concepts of science and humanities are about to be erased

but,

(2) the hell of the sciences remains,

Therefore

(3) The public's understanding of the sciences is worse than before.

The second daughter summed it up.

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Incidentally, the current science and humanities composition of the Ebata family looks like this.

Me: Science (Master of Engineering)

Wife: Humanities (English Literature)

Eldest daughter: liberal arts (in the Faculty of Psychology)

Second daughter: Science (in the School of Architecture)

(However, psychology is also the study of statistics, so I think I have a liberal arts background similar to a science background.)