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 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 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.