The Continuing Importance of an Arts Education in a STEM World | Juan Aguilar | TEDxSFU

Juan Aguilar believed his Arts education was of little use once out in the real work world, so he dropped out with one year left. Ten years of experience showed him differently. Now Juan speaks to the importance of Arts degrees in developing those soft skills so needed in business, leadership, and future jobs. Juan was born in Chihuahua, Mexico before moving to Canada at the age of six. He is currently a graduate student at SFU Beedie School of Business. His experience in hospitality management during an eight-year gap in his undergraduate studies led him to a love of all things leadership. From this interest stems his talk on the continued importance of Arts degrees as enrolment rates continue to drop, especially regarding leadership development. Between school and work Juan enjoys reading, surfing, good wine, and bad action movies This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@tracyp6849]

love the critique of the current state of higher arts ed.

[@anju5124]

This was quite enlightening. ✨

[@FarzanasLaw]

YOUR VIDEOS ARE AMAZING!!!

[@Yvngn859]

Love this💙

[@miau55555]

5:58 8:11 9:35 11:17 13:00 15:00

[@michellemarie1197]

The arts are important because they are a lost art/lost talent in creating something WITHOUT technology

[@tankthebear]

I fully support Arts education .... but ... I am not pleased with the attempt to co-opt STEM and turn it to STEAM. The whole reason we came up with STEM was to put some increased focus on the sciences. Kids just didn't have the exposure to Engineering , Math, Science and Technology education when we started discussing STEM and it's importance. That doesn't mean we don't think training or learning about the arts are important too as the speaker has pointed out. But don't attach it to STEM please. It's kind of akin to taking the National Endowment for the Arts and saying "Let's change this to the National Endowment for the Arts and Technology".