In our current society, art has the power to manipulate expression to the extent that it is different for everyone. The various colors and brush strokes are utilized as a method, to reveal a message that enters deep into the subconscious mind, leaving people feeling different emotions. Artists or even art enthusiasts have a better sense of emotions, giving them a different understanding of the world around them. Yo Yo Ma, an artist, a visionary, a cellist, a connoisseur of the rare beauty, believes that society should integrate the arts into the STEM based curriculum. He speculates that integrating the arts into the current education system, will provide students, of all age groups, a better understanding of society and promote a unified culture,
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This raised great concern among people, so they devised a plan to integrate the fun of art with the current science and math based curriculum, to create STEAM. However, great ideas come with their drawbacks. As for this plan, people do not have that sense of unifying the globe and becoming the human race, instead they rather stay in their different countries and continue to have different lifestyles. Our society measures people based on their occupations, or interests because it makes it easier to create a box on a mental shelf and shove everything into it as a means of dealing with all the information being gathered ( Ma 260).This is the biggest problem because when incorporating STEAM into the present day system it requires change from putting people into boxes. As humans we dislike change because it is not something we are able to cope with, especially in an emotionless society. Although evolution is a reoccurring phenomenon people tend to be controlling making things remain static in which this people can control The prior installment of skills placed at grade school clashes with the openness of college; therefore, the collaboration may not apply, because, within our current society many people do not enjoy change. Due to the fact it is difficult and we as humans like to take the easy way of …show more content…
Primarily, the integration would focus on advancing the present system of going to college to pursue a degree, but adding values that would make one stand out among the crowd. Currently in college, it is a requirement to take an art and/or humanities course because these classes provide one with a different way of thinking. It would remove us from viewing bits and pieces at a surface level and diving into the topic and fully understanding. This would give many college students an edge in their education because they would be willing to learn and further their learning outside the classroom, because they are wanting to explore and not remain in a box. This new mindset would develop the skill of empathy that Ma states is the most important of all values. “Empathy is the ultimate quality that acknowledges our identity as members of one human family” (Ma 258). The collectiveness would create a globalized society in which would better innovation and research in the future. Including this would provide us with “necessary edges” in which a society needs in order to function with balance. By having STEAM, we are able to better the education system and help those with a college degree leave college
This raised great concern among people, so they devised a plan to integrate the fun of art with the current science and math based curriculum, to create STEAM. However, great ideas come with their drawbacks. As for this plan, people do not have that sense of unifying the globe and becoming the human race, instead they rather stay in their different countries and continue to have different lifestyles. Our society measures people based on their occupations, or interests because it makes it easier to create a box on a mental shelf and shove everything into it as a means of dealing with all the information being gathered ( Ma 260).This is the biggest problem because when incorporating STEAM into the present day system it requires change from putting people into boxes. As humans we dislike change because it is not something we are able to cope with, especially in an emotionless society. Although evolution is a reoccurring phenomenon people tend to be controlling making things remain static in which this people can control The prior installment of skills placed at grade school clashes with the openness of college; therefore, the collaboration may not apply, because, within our current society many people do not enjoy change. Due to the fact it is difficult and we as humans like to take the easy way of …show more content…
Primarily, the integration would focus on advancing the present system of going to college to pursue a degree, but adding values that would make one stand out among the crowd. Currently in college, it is a requirement to take an art and/or humanities course because these classes provide one with a different way of thinking. It would remove us from viewing bits and pieces at a surface level and diving into the topic and fully understanding. This would give many college students an edge in their education because they would be willing to learn and further their learning outside the classroom, because they are wanting to explore and not remain in a box. This new mindset would develop the skill of empathy that Ma states is the most important of all values. “Empathy is the ultimate quality that acknowledges our identity as members of one human family” (Ma 258). The collectiveness would create a globalized society in which would better innovation and research in the future. Including this would provide us with “necessary edges” in which a society needs in order to function with balance. By having STEAM, we are able to better the education system and help those with a college degree leave college