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Some interesting views of the arts by Steve Jobs, and the example of calligraphy in Apple 

Students are encouraged to deconstruct the prevailing dichotomy between "useful" and "useless" subjects.

Steve Jobs mentions how the Apple founder attended a calligraphy class out of curiosity, and that this helped form his philosophy of marrying technology to the arts. Mr Jobs is said to have remarked that the best typography was "beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture". This epiphany would serve as his inspiration when he created the world's first computer with beautiful typography - the Macintosh.

Mr Jobs challenged the common assumption that the arts were irrelevant in the world of technology. He insisted that "it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing".

The emergence of a militant "woke" culture in certain elite American universities shows how deconstruction, taken to the extreme, can be destabilising rather than healthy. Thus, critics often argue forcefully that within the liberal arts, dogmatic left-wing, liberal ideological positions often masquerade as objective, critical thinking.

Qn: Education should only be concerned with what is useful in life. Discuss.  (Cam. 2013)