A few thoughts during #ArtsEdWeek 2017

Non-necessity. That’s what some education leaders and politicians call the arts. The sentiment mostly comes up when funding goes down, but before anyone uses that absurd term to describe arts education, I hope that person would stop and imagine a life without the arts: no music, no dance, no theater, no visual arts, no literature. I can’t fathom the emptiness and the boredom that would be left. Certainly, the core academic subjects are important. We need our schools to steep young people in the rational thought processes involved in language,… Read more A few thoughts during #ArtsEdWeek 2017 →