Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:33:09 -0400
From: Sandy Barton <sandbar-AT-wowway.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Slightly Off-Topic: Arts in schools


Mathieu, you touched on one of my hot buttons.  A friend's son graduated 
from college with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.  While we were at the 
graduation party, I overheard the question discussed of what the 
graduate was going to DO with a BFA.  They had obviously mixed up his 
college with a technical school.  But that's nearly the same thing I 
heard studying English.

Decades ago, our society decided that the best way to raise paychecks 
was to raise education standards.  Got to college = get a good job.  So 
society frowns on careers that don't fit in that box.  If you study the 
arts, philosophy, humanities the career goals are less tangible, 
therefore less valuable.  Even Oxford is doing away with its humanities 
program.  What would Lewis and Tolkien have done?  Society just doesn't 
want to spend the money for these degrees because they aren't the money 
makers.

Face it, none of us went into puppetry to get rich.  We did it for the 
love of the art.  If we happen to make a good living at it, we must be 
doing something right.

Sandy


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