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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In private school, they read all of the classics and learn about all the world religions, art history, etc. At least they do at my kids' Jesuit high school.

Being well-educated to me is having knowledge in all areas, I say that as a STEM grad degree/STEM field.

There is a push around here to force STEM and only STEM down kids' throats while forgoing the classics, geography, world religion, ethics, art, etc.  [/quote]
they can learn world religion and philosophy in college via gen ed classes.

HS kids read the classics. My kids have read a few classics in school.

As for art, I took an honors (real honors, not the fake ones like today) humanities class in HS where we learned about modern art. Honestly, I found some of the art pointless, and not aesthetically pleasing at all.  I don't find people who are into art all that "cultured". I find them a bit pretentious. There was some show or something about how a bunch of art critics were shown some drawing, and they were asked to critique it. They were all oohing and ahhing it, critiquing the technique and what have you, only to be told that it was scribbled by a 5 year old, someone's nephew or something.  It's all BS.  Drawing a squiggly  line is considered "art". [/quote]

Why don’t you start making squiggly line drawings and make it big in the art world, then? You’ll have critics fawning over you. It’s so easy.[/quote]

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