
MIT equips students with the tools to advance science and engineering — but a new class aims to ensure they also develop their own values and learn how to navigate conflicting viewpoints.Offered as a pilot this past spring, the multidisciplinary class 21.01 (Compass Course: Love, Death, and Taxes: How to Think — and Talk to Others — About Being Human), invites students to wrestle with difficult questions like:What do we value (and why)?What do we know (and how do we know it)?What do we owe to each other (and what…


