In the 1960s, NASA’s engineers were building the Apollo spacecraft. But they ran into a major problem that almost prevented them from getting to the moon. T...
I’ve always thought this is a weird status game, insisting that there is some fundamental separation between arts and engineering (ridiculous concept, engineering is fundamentally creative, and anyone who can’t see that is blind to the beauty of the world), or that the complex problems of the world will somehow be solved with more arts.
I don’t see any reason why this is true, and tons of massively cringe culturally biased writing and art in every form of media to suggest that it’s not. Arts are no better at overcoming cultural bias.
I think humility to recognize that other fields are skilled and capable enough on their own already and that you personally might have something to learn from them is difficult to develop for pretty much everyone (my experience is that most people most of the time are terrible at this, self included), and I’m not sure it’s going to be possible to teach to 18 year old college students.
I don’t think I said that arts alone are the be all and end all of civilization.
I was speaking more to the idea of education creating ‘the whole man.’
I was taught that da Vinci was the perfect Renaissance Man because he was skilled in arts, music, and engineering.
Take the first case cited in the tape; how many NASA engineers were weavers? Probably not many, but I’d bet a lot of them had grandmothers who used looms. Or maybe they’d heard about they’d ‘programmed’ looms back in the day.
I’ve always thought this is a weird status game, insisting that there is some fundamental separation between arts and engineering (ridiculous concept, engineering is fundamentally creative, and anyone who can’t see that is blind to the beauty of the world), or that the complex problems of the world will somehow be solved with more arts.
I don’t see any reason why this is true, and tons of massively cringe culturally biased writing and art in every form of media to suggest that it’s not. Arts are no better at overcoming cultural bias.
I think humility to recognize that other fields are skilled and capable enough on their own already and that you personally might have something to learn from them is difficult to develop for pretty much everyone (my experience is that most people most of the time are terrible at this, self included), and I’m not sure it’s going to be possible to teach to 18 year old college students.
I don’t think I said that arts alone are the be all and end all of civilization.
I was speaking more to the idea of education creating ‘the whole man.’
I was taught that da Vinci was the perfect Renaissance Man because he was skilled in arts, music, and engineering.
Take the first case cited in the tape; how many NASA engineers were weavers? Probably not many, but I’d bet a lot of them had grandmothers who used looms. Or maybe they’d heard about they’d ‘programmed’ looms back in the day.