I wrote a HUGE fucking post and had it all deleted. My rage subsided and I'm writing from scratch AGAIN.

Art is extremely important. Here's my opinion: creativity is innate, and can't be taught. That is at the heart of art. Anything subjective can't be taught, including 'the beauty of nature', which is what I said can't be taught in the first place. Anybody that attempts to teach art is doing something very futile. Art can only be fostered personally, and can only be prodded at on disfigured by outside forces. The closest thing you can teach to art is motor function control specific to the medium, tool use for that medium, terms, and techniques(sometimes these violate the purity of the art).

As far classrooms are concerned, because I believe art cannot be taught, there shouldn't be a class for it in any form. History is a science, so the history for any medium (and really for anything) is encouraged be me. Any class that is graded by effort is wrong. It should not be a class. The grading method alone is a concession that teaching the act is futile. These should be clubs, where there is more freedom.

I didn't say that science is the only thing worth learning. But anything that CAN be learned, is science.

Art is better outside of a classroom, and deep in the prospective student's heart.