How sad life would be if we only learned what was necessary! Oftentimes abstract thinking isn't about learning to create programmatic mental models of things,

How sad life would be if we only learned what was necessary! Oftentimes abstract thinking isn't about learning to create programmatic mental models of things, but about learning to see a problem from various perspectives. Doing so gives one's understanding more depth. These recommendations, the arts as a whole, are extremely valuable at teaching different perspectives for understanding things.