"The future belongs to creative people." -Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create." -Barack Obama
"Imagination is more important than knowlege" - Albert Einstein
The arts have always always benefited students in the following manner:
According to the current findings author Daniel H. Pink shares in his book, A Whole New Mind, and Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat the skills needed for our future employees are:
And if you remember, drawing was your child's earliest form of written communication.
Have you got Art?
"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create." -Barack Obama
"Imagination is more important than knowlege" - Albert Einstein
The arts have always always benefited students in the following manner:
- Learning experiences in the arts contribute to the development of academic
skills, including the areas of reading and language development, and mathematics. - Higher scores on standardized and college entrance exams - studies show that students who study the arts in high school score higher than their peers who do not study arts during high school on college entrance exams.
- The arts reach students who may not be interested in the traditional school subjects and therefore give them a class to look forward to at school.
- The arts reach students with different learning styles which in turn presents success oriented attitudes and higher self worth.
- The arts are one of the few school subjects where the students oucomes are all different yet are all the "correct" answer.
- The arts allow for self expression.
According to the current findings author Daniel H. Pink shares in his book, A Whole New Mind, and Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat the skills needed for our future employees are:
- Creativity & Innovation
•Collaboration
•Problem Solving
•Critical Thinking
•Global Awareness
•Media & Technology Literacy
And if you remember, drawing was your child's earliest form of written communication.
Have you got Art?
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