Science or Arts: Which is more important ....

From the seventh standard, after knowing the importance of science the scope in the field of science , what science can do for the betterment of the life on the earth as well as in understanding the past and future of the earth; living in the belief that the science is the best subject of all available into this world and the most elaborate one including all the major subjects of today’s curriculum.
And after being a science graduate along with the engineering graduation and studied specifically the science for the last eight years under different discipline my belief should have to become more rigid. But contrary to this, I have realized the arts discipline to be more directly related to the social life. Subjects like philosophy, sociology and psychology which deals with the state of mind, relation between man and nature, needs for liberty, equality, fraternity for the survival of the social life seems more important now. It’s the idea that leads to the invention, it’s the effort that leads to the discovery but it’s the sound mental health of the people that’s make a healthy society which is the mother of all inventions. And a society to be well behaved, there needs the feeling of freedom, equality and many others and all these are well traversed in arts. Life is there before the arrival of these ideas in the form of anarchy and monarchy but the way and condition most of the people were living in those times were very much below the standard. The Renaissance which transformed the medieval history into modern one was very much inspired by the sociological ideas of john locke, Aristotle and many others. Well, this time may be I am exaggerating the facts about the arts or it’s due to the fact that I am a beginner into this. But it’s undoubtedly true that arts is no less important than science.

Engineering Vs Real World

At the institute level, we are taught the best way to solve a problem, the best way to design for a structure taking care of all the failures and all the worst situations. Talking of a simple tunnel project having overburden of tens to thousand of tonnes of load along with the presence of various soft rock pockets present there in.Designing tunnels in such conditions requires lots of effort along with codal requirements and lots of experimentation to be done before proceeding to designing part(leave the construction apart).
Studying all these in the classroom, hearing about all these multi-crore projects in a 10 by 10 classroom seems so fascinating. But coming to real world where working under for companies and where profit is the main motive where the executive officer or the owner more concerned about the time and profits to be made.Reducing experimentation neglecting number of essential boreholes to be made and design the structure on the basis of incomplete ground profile often leads to failure. And as usual after such a havoc, a committee will be set up to enquire into the matter comprising of some beaureaucrates and rock engineering experts where again to get out of that contractors and company owners bribe the committee members to again find the loopholes into the indian codes or into the report itself to get rid of criminal offense.
All the knowledge gained at the institute level get modified in the real world suiting the real situations.