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“The arts are essential. They teach students innumerable lessons—practice makes perfect, small differences can have large effects, collaboration leads to creativity. The arts also teach children that there a several paths to take when approaching problems and that all problems can have more than one solution“
Art fosters the imagination, divergent and critical thinking. Making things with ones hand feeds kinesthetic learning. Art teaches perseverance and the value of learning from and through mistakes to a new discovery. It combines knowledge from many academic subjects plus one’s own emotions and experience to create a unique piece of work. Art critiques promote seeing things from other students’ point of view as well as one’s own.
“In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.” — Barak Obama
(portrait by Kehinde Wiley)
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