Yeah, the answer to this offers a great deal of explanation.
I was born in '67.
In '78 California passed prop 13, and state funding for schools dropped from $9 billion to $3 billion overnight. California school rankings went from something like 7th before prop 13 to 27th after.
(They were in...
Hey John,
I really appreciate your reply.
Yeah, I remember taking electives: aviation science, drafting, electricity, art, graphic design, photography, woodshop. But not enough to really learn much.
I seem to remember that I was only required to take one year of English and one year of...
My working definition of art is:
Meaningful human communication embodied in a compelling form.
While it's true that there are different subjective responses to art, isn't it true that part of the challenge of coming up with a definition is to include the different opinions about it that...
My thinking is that the classics, literature, along with much of the other humanities and the idea of a strong liberal arts education became less and less important, while educational focus shifted to preparing for professional fields and learning trades.
I think that there are pragmatic...
I think, in part, this goes back to the European colonization of the Americas, and the different ways those European cultures treated other races.
The Spanish, who colonized Latin America, had more of a mind to integrate and assimilate the indigenous population. They established categories and...