Some educators have seen the light. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) has started an initiative to add Art education to STEM, thereby making STEAM. Some schools say the A is for Agriculture, but the trend is towards Art in STEM education.
On the other hand, STEM, with or without liberal arts integrated, is not all that it’s cracked up to be. There are so many things that make a liberal arts education more important and beneficial than a STEM education. For example, liberal arts aren’t specialized. Many people believe that STEM should be preferred over liberal arts because STEM is more likely to lead to a job. This is not necessarily true. What is true, however, is that it is uncommon for a liberal arts education to lead to a specialized …show more content…
David J. Skorton is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute and formerly the president of Cornell University. Last year, he wrote in the journal Scientific American, “It is through the study of art, music, literature, history, and other humanities and social sciences that we gain a greater understanding of the human condition than biological or physical science alone can provide.” In other words, the liberal arts are important on all levels of education because they explain to people what being a human means in ways that the sciences do not and cannot. First Lady Michelle Obama remarked at a ribbon cutting ceremony of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.” As both of these esteemed and respected individuals point out, liberal arts education and implementation are important on the most basic level of understanding and partaking in …show more content…
It promised that “1984 won’t be like 1984,” demonstrating that the difference between the dystopian robot-like populace of the fictional 1984 and real humans was creativity. Two years earlier, Steve Jobs spoke at the Academy of Achievement, saying in his unique, scatterbrained manner, “You might want to think about going to Paris and being a poet for a few years, or might wanna go to a third-world country.” He explains that people need to have a wide variety of experiences to be creative and successful. A student won’t get those experiences just by studying computer programming. Steve Jobs is no longer with us today, but because of his creativity, innovation, and vision, his legacy lives on in the form of Apple Inc., the most valuable company
On the other hand, STEM, with or without liberal arts integrated, is not all that it’s cracked up to be. There are so many things that make a liberal arts education more important and beneficial than a STEM education. For example, liberal arts aren’t specialized. Many people believe that STEM should be preferred over liberal arts because STEM is more likely to lead to a job. This is not necessarily true. What is true, however, is that it is uncommon for a liberal arts education to lead to a specialized …show more content…
David J. Skorton is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute and formerly the president of Cornell University. Last year, he wrote in the journal Scientific American, “It is through the study of art, music, literature, history, and other humanities and social sciences that we gain a greater understanding of the human condition than biological or physical science alone can provide.” In other words, the liberal arts are important on all levels of education because they explain to people what being a human means in ways that the sciences do not and cannot. First Lady Michelle Obama remarked at a ribbon cutting ceremony of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.” As both of these esteemed and respected individuals point out, liberal arts education and implementation are important on the most basic level of understanding and partaking in …show more content…
It promised that “1984 won’t be like 1984,” demonstrating that the difference between the dystopian robot-like populace of the fictional 1984 and real humans was creativity. Two years earlier, Steve Jobs spoke at the Academy of Achievement, saying in his unique, scatterbrained manner, “You might want to think about going to Paris and being a poet for a few years, or might wanna go to a third-world country.” He explains that people need to have a wide variety of experiences to be creative and successful. A student won’t get those experiences just by studying computer programming. Steve Jobs is no longer with us today, but because of his creativity, innovation, and vision, his legacy lives on in the form of Apple Inc., the most valuable company