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on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
The New Yorker wonders:
My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.
Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by tftp on Thursday November 03 2016, @05:32AM
Do you equate art with utility rather than beauty?
That is an interesting question. Many trades are not that far removed from art - if you ever worked a lathe, soldered or welded something. But trades are nearly universally recognized as useful. The value of beauty is highly subjective and varies wildly. Ask a child in early 1900's what he wants to study - to be a mechanic or to be a poet - and chances are that the child's choice will not surprise anyone. Arts are only for a few, and beauty is not essential for life. (Many are entirely blind to beauty.) Utility is for everyone, and in most cases you cannot live without it.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:06PM
Art is just art, but Design is Everything.
There is a subtle difference, though there is obviously overlap. Art is, in my opinion, more instinctual, but true Design in any subject approaches divinity as it blends the conscious and the subconscious.