That, and "human development" in terms of an actual broad education will probably get you further in the long run than circling up around the latest job credential.
I remember reading somewhere about how learning certain instruments makes changes to the brain's surface that are large enough to see with the naked eye. From many accounts, playing the violin was no small part of Einstein's life and research. Who knows if he'd have been as productive if he'd just been all-physics-all-the-time? It could have served as a sort of "backpropagation" to his theoretical work.
From my own experience, many of these seemingly unrelated intellectual pursuits open so many doors, and from this article it isn't just my own experience: https://medium.com/personal-growth/einsteins-violin-the-hidd...
You've never been poor I see, or really truly known anyone who was. Poverty is a real problem, here, in the good old USA still. Survival is all many people worry about. I'm relaying a reality to you that you clearly have no concept of. I didn't have indoor plumbing until I was a teenager. We lived off government handouts and what we could kill and bathed outdoors in rainwater we had to strain the misquote larvae out of with a towel. Don't tell me I'm being overly dramatic, you don't know what you're talking about.
Yea, music is good, but when you're worried about how you're going to eat today you don't think about such things, you don't plan long term, you live day by day.
Despite whatever hardships you have endured, here you are.
Must really appreciate the lack of affordable health care and never being able to afford a family. But at least you can appreciate it!
There is a world of difference between being educated and getting an education.
That's correct, yes, but it's not the whole story.
(Some of) us students hold the same opinions, regardless of whether or not our parents do.
Indeed, I would gladly shed any of the "good person" parts of my personality, if doing so gave me better aptitude in the field that I'm studying.
(Sadly, genetic engineering is still a pipe dream, and won't work on already-living humans anyway.)
Better people will deal with what comes their way. Maybe today it's a job, but tomorrow it'll be something else.
Students who were only thought how to build software, will have a hard time dealing with life when robots starts building software instead of them.
First have better people, then let better people be better and bring themselves to prosperity.
These are also skills that are hard to teach as a specific subject; they mostly come with experience in some other, more practical subject. Some of these, like critical thinking, can go against the modern prevailing religion (political correctness), which makes teaching them harder still.