All Around Knowledge

In class today we talked about giving money to the Arts and how we feel about that in an economically depressed nation, as ours is right now. For me, I would support that. I feel that having knowledge and exposure to the Arts actually supplements one's knowledge and can only help that person. Without the exposure of Arts we'd probably be a less developed world.

I think that learning about using creative energy and actually utilizing that creative energy is healthy for our bodies. As science has showed (also reference to what Ruchi said today), the right brain contributes more creative thoughts, while the left brain is a logical thinker. To only be using one side of your brain doesn't sound like a very good idea does it? I agree with the fact that murals and music can help boost someone's feelings but I really think that without learning to use the creative part of our brains we would not understand much of the logic we understand today. Solving problems is not always logical. Sometimes we need to come at them in a different, more creative way. Cutting out that creative side would slow down progress, even scientific "logic-based" progress enormously.