Okay so every time STEAM is brought up I have to complain about this.
A girl who attended the same high school and college as me led the change of the college’s STEM program to a STEAM program. This included a renovation of the STEM Center into a STEAM Center by adding free to use art supplies and classes. Okay, that’s fine. Actually more than fine, it was a pretty cool thing. Anyone students who wanted to learn to paint could go there and get some free lessons/canvass/paint. Here’s the thing, though.
They removed the Community Coding Lab to do this. The CCL was basically the same thing, except open to everyone and taught coding. Twice a month anyone who came in on time to get a computer would get taught coding, and had access to all the same software as the Computer Science majors. And there were more computers there than the CS lab, so a lot of them would do their work there instead because their room would fill up too fast. But nope, all gone.
That sounds typical of the left. Ruin something good and useful to replace it with something that makes you feel good but isn’t really useful.
I find the “artist” crowd tries to make everything you can do into art in some way to justify them doing anything remotely artist. Your aerodynamics on your car aren’t for speed or mileage it’s art. They cool chainmail shirt you made isn’t honouring now old skills and history, it has to be art too despite my gagging a bit in the back of my throat when they try to force it on me. I’m no artist. I work for a living damnit lol.
Yeah, not worth it. Art is fine but it will never be more important than actual useful skills. Like it would be a shame if art ceased to exist, but life would go on. The same cannot be said for engineering or mathematics.
art, or emotion, guides how we use engineering and mathematics, so art/emotion are important, maybe even more important....but should we idolize it? should we idolize the worst emotions (envy? lust?)? probably not...complete removal of art would be akin to complete removal of half (one hemisphere) of our brain
Like I said, it'd be a shame to not have art. But lets not pretend like society would immediately collapse if we didn't have it like it would if everyone suddenly forgot how to do math.
Okay so every time STEAM is brought up I have to complain about this.
A girl who attended the same high school and college as me led the change of the college’s STEM program to a STEAM program. This included a renovation of the STEM Center into a STEAM Center by adding free to use art supplies and classes. Okay, that’s fine. Actually more than fine, it was a pretty cool thing. Anyone students who wanted to learn to paint could go there and get some free lessons/canvass/paint. Here’s the thing, though.
They removed the Community Coding Lab to do this. The CCL was basically the same thing, except open to everyone and taught coding. Twice a month anyone who came in on time to get a computer would get taught coding, and had access to all the same software as the Computer Science majors. And there were more computers there than the CS lab, so a lot of them would do their work there instead because their room would fill up too fast. But nope, all gone.
That sounds typical of the left. Ruin something good and useful to replace it with something that makes you feel good but isn’t really useful.
I find the “artist” crowd tries to make everything you can do into art in some way to justify them doing anything remotely artist. Your aerodynamics on your car aren’t for speed or mileage it’s art. They cool chainmail shirt you made isn’t honouring now old skills and history, it has to be art too despite my gagging a bit in the back of my throat when they try to force it on me. I’m no artist. I work for a living damnit lol.
Yeah, not worth it. Art is fine but it will never be more important than actual useful skills. Like it would be a shame if art ceased to exist, but life would go on. The same cannot be said for engineering or mathematics.
art, or emotion, guides how we use engineering and mathematics, so art/emotion are important, maybe even more important....but should we idolize it? should we idolize the worst emotions (envy? lust?)? probably not...complete removal of art would be akin to complete removal of half (one hemisphere) of our brain
Like I said, it'd be a shame to not have art. But lets not pretend like society would immediately collapse if we didn't have it like it would if everyone suddenly forgot how to do math.
That is so fucked up...
There's a reason we don't tell (former) journalists to learn to paint.