Even in art innumeracy is an extreme handicap.
Yesterday:
One of the artists ( age 30) with whom I share a studio took a photo and needed to enlarge a drawing of it on her canvas. She was completely at a loss on how to do this. I solved the problem using simple ration and proportion and a scale factor. It took me about 10 mins to get the image transferred.
In another studio ( a private school) the assistant ( age 21) to the master artist needed to build a panel to support a large canvas. She could not figure out how to find the underlying supports so she could drill a screw into the support from the front. She had no understanding of how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide fractions.
Pitiful! And...These are **smart**, hardworking, and motivated people who know that they have been educationally abused. Several of these young artists are trying to educate themselves by using Khan Academy.
"Educationally abused." That's an excellent term that nails what has happened to these people. it is a form of abuse, and a waste of human talent.
.Anyone can be taught everything needed to operate well in the physical world, but how much of so-called education is frittered away on complete wastes of time such as "gender studies".