re: STEAM vs STEM Education

In general because the deeper you delve into history, the more subjective and theoretical it becomes.

One of these is a hobby, not a viable career path.

Though I would also argue that most STEM fields are arts in their own respect as far as the creativity and outside-the-box thinking that’s required to be above par.

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In general because the deeper you delve into history, the more subjective and theoretical it becomes.

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I don't know if this is true. Most of the conversation at the graduate level in history concerns itself with primary sources, or secondary commentaries on primary sources, and whether we can trust those secondary sources. For example, in Indian history, the British commentators of India assumed the practice of "sati," or the burning of Hindu widows, was widespread. Later Indian historians challenged that assertion by providing evidence that it was limited in both time-period and scope. Sati actually doubled in practice after the British arrived. None of this is subjective or theoretical. It requires deep knowledge with the primary source documentation and deep familiarity with the secondary source documentation, or the tradition of it. Most often things become fact based on the initial commentaries of primary sources, which were often based on much less rigorous practices, if not outright bias. For some reason, there is lots of resistance to any revisionism, even though most revisionists are much more well-sourced than the original secondary commentaries.

I know in the game industry in Seattle, what they are struggling with is finding enough artists, as there are enough software engineers to depress the pay significantly.

Frankly, what separates American civilization from the rest of the world is our free-thinking. People are acting as though there is some glut of artists. There are comparatively few artists in comparison to STEM majors. The few that major in it are usually fantastically talented. I know a couple of guys from LSU who've had art shows in Paris and Berlin. Maybe people have the impression of a starving artist or something, but that impression was invented in the fin de siecle period of France, from the 1880's to WWI, and somehow has become a popular perception in America, when that isn't the case. Lots of postwar art had a lot to do with the New Deal, as many artists were commissioned to paint murals, including some at LSU, of which are of the highest quality. Many of these artists went on to fame in the 1950's.

The entertainment industry produces quite a lot of wealth as well, in addition to producing things that become emblematic of the culture. People are acting as though we are in a collapsed society. We aren't. We are in a very rich society that just uses its resources somewhat poorly.

The Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts was founded in 1983. It has always had the Arts included and students have always been required to take a core number of math, science, humanities, and arts classes to ensure that every student gets exposed to all of them during their educations, no matter what they chose to focus most of their studies on. The idea that the Arts are an important part of a well-rounded education is not new.

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Art has a place in a well rounded education. Life isn't solely about making money.

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This post has 13 downvotes. Never change,OT.

They're worried about running out of barristas.