RE: Your creativity and skills are being murderd
November 9, 2012 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2012 at 5:57 pm by Rayaan.)
I wasn't good at math and science either. I used to do a lot better, and more interested, in the Arts and creative-related courses. I liked writing and poetry as well (though not literature, specifically). I liked science classes, too, but I didn't like the part where we were required to memorize massive amounts of information and complicated details while being shown all these different slides one after another just to pass some exams, only to forget them afterwards. My appreciation of science grew mostly from the books that I have read on my leisure time, not from the classes I took.
Liberal Arts, which includes subjects like writing, art, music, philosophy, culture, anthropology, psychology, etc., overall, are given less priority academically as compared to science and engineering. But as Summer mentioned already, there's a reason for that, and it's simply because the Arts tend to have a much less demand on a professional level.
But people have different goals and desires in their lives, obviously. Some people mainly aim to find a high-paying career for themselves and so they pick their subjects accordingly, while other people much prefer to study whatever they are interested in regardless of the professional applications.
Liberal Arts, which includes subjects like writing, art, music, philosophy, culture, anthropology, psychology, etc., overall, are given less priority academically as compared to science and engineering. But as Summer mentioned already, there's a reason for that, and it's simply because the Arts tend to have a much less demand on a professional level.
But people have different goals and desires in their lives, obviously. Some people mainly aim to find a high-paying career for themselves and so they pick their subjects accordingly, while other people much prefer to study whatever they are interested in regardless of the professional applications.
