What is your opinion on schools changing STEM to STEAM to include art?

    Anyway I don’t understand why people are so mad about this.. a long time ago, many great artists were scientists too.. most notable is Leonardo da Vinci.. we are the ones who put boundaries on fields/areas and label them.. this made people think that those who do arts, can’t do science and vice versa. That’s so sad..


    Here is an article about some notable scientist-artists

    7 Scientific Pioneers Who Were Also Artistic Visionaries, From the Inventor of the Morse Code to the Founder of Neurobiology | Artnet News
    From Samuel Morse to John James Audubon, some of the greatest scientific minds were also inspired by their love for the arts.
    news.artnet.com

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    I'm not the most knowledgeable about it but it makes it a broad category and essentially sums up most of every university with a few exceptions so I find it kinda dumb. Math is in the art's department at my uni for example but it was already in the stem abbreviation so I guess this might be so social sciences students feel more important idk. I think stem is involved for funding things at least when I was in uni student gov for a while (I know art is connected with science mainly visual and musical arts though in practice not so much in academia) so maybe it's a ploy to get more money to art's departments even though for most classes(not music or visual or performing arts) they're classes are really cheap to teach.

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