How to Bridge Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology

This question has been put forth in previous posts: How can humanities and science be bridged?  These two areas of knowledge, of academic wisdom, of human endeavor, have been at odds since the beginning of time.

Humanity has benefited greatly from scientific achievements that have allowed for the development of modern technologies and art forms.

Yet there have been many instances in which these same scientific achievements, modern technologies, and art forms, have caused some of the darkest chapters in human history.

HAST education, the integration of Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology, is founded on the four cornerstones which these four areas provide.

HAST education helps bridge the vast expanses that can form within these four core areas.  It keeps as a primary focus the effects that education and its applications have for the people, our communities, and society; while taking into account the benefits to humanity of our scientific achievements, newly developed technologies, and the art forms that are created from them. HAST education also brings to the forefront the dangers that can happen to us if we do not take these thoughts into consideration by bringing light to some of the most tragic events in humanity.


Manuel R. CortezRodas - Chief Educator/Founder

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How Art and Technology Bridge Humanities and Science

It seems that science and humanities have been at odds since the beginning of time.  Science being deeply rooted in facts, formulas, and processes; while humanities being deeply rooted in the human spirit, life, and all their qualities.  Humanities has been described as everything that is not science, and science as everything that is not humanities.  Yet both have managed to coexist, throughout time, in many cultures and various places.

One way in which these two areas of knowledge can be bridged is through the arts and technology. At various periods of time the emergence of new technology and art have had an effect on the relation between humanities and science.  From telegraph, to television, to Twitter, each new technology expanded the art of communication in human society through scientific inventions.  Knowledge no longer staying localized, but rather began reaching a far greater audience, having a greater impact in opinions, reasoning, and thought.  Creating the need to begin a dialog about how each innovation can do both bridge and isolate.

The close relation between Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology (HAST) can serve as a foundation upon which a framework for the education process can be built.  HAST Education benefits those who participate in it by addressing how the human pursuit for knowledge has an effect on humanity.


Manuel R. CortezRodas - Chief Educator/Founder

Copyright 2015.  MRCR Educational Consulting Firm.  All Rights Reserved.

APRIL 2015

Manuel R. CortezRodas
(Chief Educator/Founder)

April has arrived, and with it, the season of spring which brings the signs of rebirth.  

There is much that is associated with this month and have included a few examples to consider:

• Spring showers, which are urgently needed in California.
• It is, as it is written in hashtag, #NationalPoetryMonth or #npm15
• The beginning of the last three months of school (Apr, May, Jun).
• Graduates blooming from our high schools as the Class of 2015. 
• The continuing duty and debate of year end education assessment.
• Spring Break 2015!!!

MRCR Education is doing its best to continue presenting and sharing information that can be of assistance to educators prepare in that final stretch of the 2014-15 school year.  

The MRCR Education Logo
(Inspired by the Mayan representation
for "TUN" meaning: Stone, Year)

Please continue to follow us on Twitter @mrcreducation for the latest updates from MRCR Education and its resources on the areas of English Language Developement (ELD) Education, STEAM Education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics), and HAST (Humanities, Arts, Science, Technology) Education, in addition to other educational themes and topics. 

We look forward to your feed back! 

Thank You. 




Manuel R. CortezRodas - Chief Educator/Founder

Copyright 2015.  MRCR Educational Consulting Firm.  All Rights Reserved.