How come the arts have become disposable? I don't get it. But it's true.
In a recent New York Times article, op-ed columnist David Brooks writes, “When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting.” Brooks laments the diminishing numbers of students enrolling in liberal arts degrees in our colleges and universities stating that “the labs are more glamorous than the libraries.” Or, the art studios. Within the context of this economic and political environment, the oil disaster in the Gulf, and the immigration debates, the arts have been reduced to a disposable area of funding and an area of education that is one of the first things to go in budget cuts.
No wonder so many people today have such a hard time seeing clearly.
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