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When thinking of what I enjoy more when it comes to art and science I would have to go with art, it’s just nicer to look at, take figure on for example. I have never thought of science and art as two cultures that are working against each other until we read Two Cultures. When I was in middle school we had art class and science class, the two were always separated but equally valued, the curriculum was meant to be equal in all subjects (1) but this changed when I got to college. The arts to me are language arts classes, history and your traditional paining and drawing. Science on the other had is math, engineering and technology. To relate this to UCLA is quite easy, all you have to do is look at our campus as seen in Figure Two. UCLA students refer to our campus in two parts, North Campus and South Campus. While they are both part of our campus they teach two entirely different things. North Campus is responsible for teaching students what would be considered the arts like English and DESMA while South Campus is responsible for the sciences like math and geology which are housed there. This did not have much effect on me until the reading, and then it made perfect sense. If you asked me to tell you anything about geology I would not be able to help you out at all and the same would go for the geology students when asked about history. This should not be the case. I think we should be able to specialize in what we want to but I also believe that we should be well rounded. Other countries have mastered this but the US is having a hard time with it. We currently rank 15 in the world as to how good our education is according to info.com (2) this is also easily seen in Figure Three. This seems a bit strange to me when we are one of if not the most powerful country in the world. While we are ranked a bit low in education we come in second in spending per student (3). This does not make sense. The leaders of this country could do themselves a favor and read Two Cultures. We should equally value all subjects so we come out to be better-educated people. I’ve heard many politicians say we need to change education by spending money on it when the answer is if we change how we are teaching we can spend less money and educate the students in a better way.