Like it or not, Americans will accept years of education in the English language because the curriculum requires and the culture values it. Likewise, as despised as it often is, Americans will accept the same of mathematics for the same reasons.
But, the visual language? Despite the fact that they live in an increasingly visual world, where they are entertained visually, marketed to visually, informed visually and live connected to screens, Americans see little value in visual art, a fact reflected in the curriculum.
Visual art has to continually valid itself, which is an exhausting, but necessary task, in contemporary American culture.
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