While I technically agree about the importance of art, I find that type of education at school almost pointless; save for perhaps SOME of what one can study more in-depth at college for particular careers they're pursuing.
It seems those who are interested in arts that enrich society don't often owe much of their learning to school as much as they do to personal interests/hobbies. As someone who grew up obsessed with the arts and feel as though I know a fair bit about them, I, for one, credit art at school with absolutely none of what I know, enjoy, or am skilled at in regard to them. If anyone deserves credit, it's my mother for allowing me access to her films, books, and the internet and not caring how much of my time I spent alone with them lol. I mean, I knew more about movies and filmmakers than most grownups before I was even in high school. And I wasn't even trying.
Things such as math and science, however, don't quite work the same. Even if one does become interested in them, they're more complicated and not quite as organically appealing to most people. The arts, however, are omnipresent in our society (to a point that's arguably problematic due to their huge influence). They're associated with entertainment mediums that humans naturally gravitate towards (the brain is big on narratives and emotion, not data). You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone not interested in the arts in SOME way. But poke your head out a window and instantly find 20 people who don't understand probability, know the planets in our solar system, or can't grasp the basics of evolution.
Arts may enrich society but math and science create it. We have a rarity of people who understand and enjoy data, the scientific method, and critical thinking, not entertaining narratives and emotional visuals (hence why entertaining stories always beat out more factual ones in the news). To say the math and science crowd is a dime a dozen compared to those in love with the arts is patently absurd.
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