To learn Art History

Bill
9-13-17

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/15/the-art-of-learning-why-art-history-might-be-the-most-important-subject-you-could-study-today/

By juxtaposing and discussing John Berger's Ways of  Seeing and other's points of view, the author has made the statement clearly that art history is essential to be in the school curriculum; art history, as in the humanities, teaches students how to learn by offering them the interdisciplinary connections and the process of human development, through which people get the sense of how human culturally have been changing by degrees and how might human keep up the progress in the near future. Humanities including art histories are established upon the civilization; it communicates the process of its formation, guiding human with more possibility of not only technically solving problem but also having a right mentality to solve the problem and to develop in the future.
We study art history sometimes in different ways, and one thing that has been usually neglected by us when learning it is we look at the past through our own lens. Enforcing today's technology and mentality onto the culture, the art from a couple hundred or even thousands year ago changes every thing: the original condition, the intentions, the thoughts throughout making the work. I agree with the point of view that the art history helps us pay attention to what we are and what we should learn, as well as in what way we learn.
What STEM subjects provide is, I would say, as important as what art history provide, that is to offer the connections all over the subject field; one of the most important things benefit the entire civilization is to listen and accept the different perspectives, to "think outside of the box". In that way we look art history upon as an eye opener to improve adaptability and build the right mentality through studying.