Somebody on substack made a STRONG point about schools failing to prepare us for life. I hadn’t thought about this failure before.
If art classes included drafting, they would have helped future architects and designers and engineers.
I was inclined toward architecture. When I visited neighbors or friends, I didn’t waste time in boring old conversation. I explored the floor plan and construction details of the house. Later I got back into the realm via digital graphics, but I could have applied the interest sooner with a foundation in drafting.
Our art classes in junior high prepared us for expensive upperclass hobbies. They taught watercolor painting but NOT painting walls or furniture. They included pottery** and leatherwork which are NOT salable skills. The classroom had a kiln and easels but NOT a drafting board or light table.
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** In fairness, there were quite a few small pottery factories in the 60s, including a famous one in Oklahoma. But they used mass production molding, not individual hands-on sculpting.
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