The Price of Cutting Arts Education
I was paging through a copy of Creative Expression: The Development of Children's Interest in Art, Music, Literature, and Dramatics (copyright 1926) this morning and it hit me:
When we cut elementary fine arts programs at the expense of math and science, what we're cutting is not just the budding American citizen's understanding of the First Amendment -- an understanding of the importance of free speech and originality -- but specifically, how to do it.
I don't want to use the word chilling -- I don't think this is a conspiracy -- but it's certainly depressing and dismaying.
And angry-making.
When we cut elementary fine arts programs at the expense of math and science, what we're cutting is not just the budding American citizen's understanding of the First Amendment -- an understanding of the importance of free speech and originality -- but specifically, how to do it.
I don't want to use the word chilling -- I don't think this is a conspiracy -- but it's certainly depressing and dismaying.
And angry-making.
posted by Christine at 10:14 AM
1 Comments:
We cut art education and we get fewer Alicia Keys and more Britney Spears...
...I know, it makes me shudder too.
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