Just as our DNA is composed of four building strands (A, C, G, T), so is HAST Education composed of four educational strands: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology.
Humanities has its origin deeply rooted in humans and our ability of being human to our fellow mankind, people. The humanities, then, can be studied through subject areas such as history and philosophy, where great intellect and feeling come together be learned. Humanities does draw an academic boundary around itself in order to distinguish itself from science.
The arts are about craft, creativity, and skill. In the arts we are presented with the opportunity to apply what we have learned in order to express human emotions like happiness, sadness, beauty, pain, and share these emotions for others to experience as well.
Science is the search for knowledge. Scientists study facts so they may develop principles, create systems, and establish methods. Science provides us the means, not only to search for such knowledge, but to also collect, organize, and present such knowledge with the scientific community and the public. It is through science that we can ask and answer the following: Why?, I want to know why, Do you know why?, Let's find out why.
The art of applying science to the industrial and the practical is what gives us technology. Technology is a tool that will forever continue to improve its usefulness, or risk stagnation and possible elimination. It is through technology that we have expanded our communication with the development of the internet, television, radio, telephone, telegraph, and all the way back to the most ancient manuscripts preserved in papyrus, wood and rock carvings, as well as cave paintings where we have recorded the earliest of human knowledge.
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
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