Personal Growth: 5 Secret Gifts of the Arts 1. The arts give us experiences of depth and insight that we can’t get from other sources. 2. The arts teach us how to work within a material. All art forms employ some means through which inner images and visions can become real. 3. Through their capacity [ Read more … ]
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Ten lessons the arts teach
In today’s world and political climate, art and artists are needed more than ever. Here are ten qualities of being that they give us…. 1. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. Problems can have more than one solution [ Read more … ]
Ten lessons the arts teach
1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. 2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than [ Read more … ]