Why is Art Education Important?

Art is critical for developing important skills:
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• The arts teach students to make good judgements about qualitative relationships.

• The arts teach students that problems can have more than one solution.

• The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.

• The arts teach students that in complex forms of problem-solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

• The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers can exhaust what we know.

• The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.

• The arts teach students to think through and within a material.

• The arts help students learn to say what cannot be said.

• The arts enable us to have experiences we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

• The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.