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.
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
Don't you know it's STEAM now? The left added arts as an attempt to infiltrate the hard sciences with Marxism.
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.
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