To: Im thinking about going to film school, but my family wants me to go to school for something more serious.
Me: Art School is a way to waste a few years of your education and job prospects, because Art School does not provide you with any skills you will need when you try and find work, because you will be the last person they would employ, which puts everyone else who went to school and studied for skills which would be useful for an employer, whereas being able to paint, draw and perhaps dance, are not skills that anybody needs to have, when they are looking for employees to promote and advance their business and their income, which is why employers have businesses in the first place.
Usually the 3 R’s is the best way to go – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic – education is not about you enjoying yourself, so much as preparing you to be able to find and keep a job and earn income to support yourself, whereas Art School is more for kids from wealthy parents, who don’t ever have to work, because their parents fortune and the rich people who they marry, will provide their incomes and expenses, so they have nothing to lose by doing Art School……….