[@TheMushroomLord] Oh yeah, so like, there's a little bit of that, but it's more like Arts is currently, say, an elective in school rather than something like a core unit. Consider it a bit like the early days of computers, possibly equivalent to the 1980s or 1990s. Not everybody knows how to program, and learning how to do computers isn't for everyone.

But if you know how to start you can start really early, and do pretty well. Realistically Arts' timeframe and circumstances are quite similar to computers, so they should realistically be about as advanced and as part of human society as computers is today, but Arts hasn't reached that level of development yet (mostly because it's just easier to not have to think about it that way...), so Arts users are relatively in the "minority" still, but they're increasing in number thanks to the adoption of more early learning programs (perhaps, kinda depends on how much need for it there really is). It's something that's likely to be advancing rapidly in the background already, but such changes would take a while to translate into full societal shifts for a while.

I imagine a lot of information about Yokai is public already considering most people living right now will have interacted face-to-face with at least one at some point in their lives. The kind of scientific studies that are publicly available now on similar stuff in the real world is probably equivalent in that aspect as well.

The Akasha Agency and Arts teachers probably also have a vested interest to keep students from forming misconceptions in the first place about Arts, because it's quite a task to teach anything in the first place. If it's at all like learning science, you shouldn't be learning anything in an overly simplified manner because it's a type of continual education which'll continue right back up at the place where you left off if you decide to pursue it further.

There may be such preconceptions if going from something that is completely removed from, or has no traces of Arts. Because in such a situation you'd only know what you've heard through word of mouth or far off exposure.

Or actually, if it were more akin to IT then it probably would like that now that I think about it. Maybe that was just my IT teacher though but IT was pretty over simplified for me before getting into it in university.