I, personally, am all for art for the people. I love art (well, at least the one I understand, I have to admit there’s a lot of the modern artistic expression I don’t really get). Still, I think we tend to use that term so much in regard to everything that it stands to lose its meaning.
Everything from sewing a dress to making a fluffy omelette is deemed to be art. I wrote “the art of” on Amazon just now and there are over 1.000.000 results. I stopped browsing after the fifth page but even in that short time I found some bewildering titles.
Since this way of regarding all things is so popular, of course it eventually got applied to training and lately I have stumbled across a few posts about the art of this particular enterprise. I have been a corporate trainer for over a decade and in my personal experience, teaching adults is more science than anything else. Same goes for e-learning.
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