SovietOmega posted...
"Why is it important to teach it, though? All I hear is THAT it's important, but not WHY. Only a precious few people will ever use any of their math and science education. No one I know has learned anything in any of their math and science-type classes except people who are or were in college studying math and science."
Exactly >_>;;
Except... part of being a functional adult is understanding a little bit how math works. Everyone has to be able to add and subtract, if nothing else than to sanity-check what their calculator says. If they had no math at all and replaced all their math with push-buttons-on-your-calculator classes, they'd have to take it on faith that they didn't slip somewhere when pushing the buttons.
Haguile posted...
From: WhoopsyDaisy | Posted: 12/5/2011 4:56:27 PM | #011
Why is it important to teach it, though? All I hear is THAT it's important, but not WHY. Only a precious few people will ever use any of their art education. No one I know has learned anything in any of their arty-type classes except people who are or were in college studying art.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Not exactly what you are asking for but it should give you more or less an idea of why art is important.
kk, watching
--
senorhousemouse