ChadamsI hope all the STEM people who thought maybe we could simply do without all that pesky humanities education now understand how ridiculous that notion always has been.
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈@thecityinspeech that is how we got STEAM
@Darkphoenix We didn't really get the arts, though. We've been systematically defunding them and devaluing the cultural and economic contributions of artists, philosophers, writers, and other people in the humanities for decades. This isn't a timeline that has embraced the liberal arts.
@thecityinspeech I'm old. We had band and chorus in school, and woodshop and home ec. I played with our band in the Disneyland Main Street parade. It was the highlight of my secondary education. (I really hated jr and sr high school. I was a geek, living in a ski resort)
It breaks my heart that so many kids are being deprived of that whole culture
It breaks my heart that so many kids are being deprived of that whole culture
@Darkphoenix I lucked out through a combination of having an artsy family and having a public school system that supported the arts (though less and less over time), but our school was absolutely an outlier in our area in its strong support of the arts, and that support has dwindled over the years.