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The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
Art is literacy of the heart
If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.
