There is a strong bias in our culture toward academically oriented fields such as science, engineering, business, or the professions, medical, legal, academic, or political. We are using our educational system to try to gear students toward a very narrow range of options. It is assumed that everyone wants to be a doctor, a lawyer, or a businessperson. A high school might have a music department, drama department, and an English department that may teach creative writing but if someone really wants to make a profession of some performing art, do they need to jump through all of those other hoops?