Education Cake

This is a cake I made for a visual representation based on themes of education. The big round is composed of half a chocolate cake and half a vanilla cake (more on this tomorrow). The smaller cake is simply four extra pieces of cake put together. The cakes are iced in vanilla buttercream, and piped with blue, yellow, and red buttercream. I used a triple border on the big round - a yellow shell, a blue line, and a red squiggly. I did a yellow ruffle and blue line border on the smaller pieces, with a yellow shell on top. The smaller pieces compose my title "Hierarchy of Education & Multiple Intelligences . The round cake is a pyramid outlined in yellow stars with school subjects written inside, with symbols piped around the pyramid. This cake represents a few views on the education system today, which are explained by the following: 

The main focus of the cake is the pyramid in the center, which represents the Hierarchy of Education. People are being educated out of their creativity, and apparently there is a hierarchy of subjects in school, with math, sciences, and languages being at the top, and liberal arts and arts at the bottom. There is a hierarchy within the art subjects as well, with music being at the top and dance being at the bottom. Although each section becomes larger moving down the pyramid, each section moving downwards is subdivided into more categories, such as the bottom of the pyramid, which is subdivided into three types of arts, although there exist many more as well. Likewise, liberal arts may be subdivided into categories including literature, religious studies, philosophy, and more.  Therefore, the arts do not represent a larger proportion of the pyramid and do not demonstrate more importance than mathematics. However, it may be interpreted that although arts are looked upon as being less important, in reality they contain more significance and are more prominent in life than mathematics.

            The second major theme reflected in my cake is the theory of multiple intelligences, proposed by Howard Gardner. According to Gardner, there are eight main different learning styles, and each individual learns in different ways. Everyone may exhibit characteristics from all, some, or one way of learning. These types of learning include: verbal or linguistic, logical or mathematical, visual or spatial, bodily or kinesthetic, musical or rhythmic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. The symbols around the pyramid represent the different ways of learning (clockwise): a paintbrush for artistic qualities, a foot for bodily, a flower for naturalist, mathematical operation symbols for mathematical, a book for linguistic, people for interpersonal, eyes for visual, a happy face for intrapersonal, a heart for intrapersonal, a music note for musical, numbers for mathematical, a flower for naturalist, a checkmark for logical, and letters for verbal.