“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter - it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

- Mark Twain

I signed my oldest daughter up for kindergarten today. It seems she will be attending a good school, and I think my daughter will enjoy the experience. However, on the door to the kindergarten art classroom was a sheet of paper with several columns of art jobs listed on it, like “sketch artist, painter,” etc. On top of the paper plastered in bold face type it read, “Things you can do with an art degree.”

Rather than telling kids what can be done with an art degree, a math degree, or science degree, wouldn’t it be better to simply tell them what they can do with art, math and science? The results might be electric.

Take Chris Wahl, for instance: He is an art degreeless artist, yet is highly educated in commercial illustration and is in demand.