(I would like to emphasise that part of this is a joke - I do not intend to offend or make any drastic changes to Singapore's educational system, but I genuinely want to see how popular this would get)

I am a Singaporean secondary student, and these are my opinions on art.

Art is amazing and I definitely love art. But it should not even be a subject, lest an exam.

The first thing I would like the acknowledge is the range of art skills put in our work and the knowledge of art taught by teachers. Throughout Primary school and Secondary school's journeys, these art skills learnt does not seem to benefit to our learning in our future and current studies. For example, finger painting learnt in Primary 1, colour blending and surrealism art does not seem to put much use into our daily lives as well as our academics. Though skills like creativity and innovation may be developed, it is still redundant in our studies as most of the knowledge we learnt does not include any form of these skills and usually requires memorisation and problem-solving techniques instead of our brilliancy at creative solutions. Think-out-of-the-box techniques used in studying are more related to our subjects like mathematics rather than art.

Moreover, the many skills implemented by art classes have nothing to do with our future, especially the little future careers provided by Singapore. Skills such as colour blending and sketching is pretty much useless in the jobs that Singapore very demands, like engineering and medical care. These calls out the insignificance of the knowledge taught in art classes, where it is made clear that none of these will benefit our future jobs as well as salary. To include, even if we were to become artists, not only will our salary be low, but we will also be mainly looked down upon other people for having such 'useless' jobs. In Asian countries, it is not uncommon for jobs that do not require academics to be seen as disapproving, where these people may be deemed confused and lazy of their careers. Although it is extremely important that such discrimination must be acted against, it is still no lie that we practice this very often and still prevalent to this day where art is known to be one of the most useless and lazy subjects that does not provide any benefit.

Thirdly, art is wide-ranging. In this current age, 'modern art' seems to be arising in various social media platforms, displaying people of younger generations easily splattering paint on canvases, mere strokes or even the tiniest dots that can sell for thousands, if not millions, as they are passed on as 'modern art' or 'abstract art'. These practices are also carried out by many in the past, where auctions would elevate the price of an almost empty and worthless piece of canvas to millions, just for a smear of paint. As such, what is the purpose of learning the different types of art, if such simple art pieces that a 5-year-old can recreate can be worth more than a retail worker's salary? What is the point of going through all of these lessons if they were to be defeated and told useless by a canvas with splashed paint? Art lessons hold nothing but disappointment and embarrassment, if this were to become the future of modern day art.

To summarise, art should not be a subject, as art not only teaches absolutely nothing, but also provides our careers with absolutely nothing, and holds in our future absolutely nothing.