At this point, I believe that the prevailing public perception is that arts education is only for young people who want to be artists—“Glee” wannabes. If we applied this mindset to science, we would teach science only to students who aspired to be chemists, biologists, or astronomers.this is so on-target. as the daughter of two "left brained" lawyers, i shied away from art a lot when i was a kid, believing that since i would surely never be an artist, there was nothing for me to explore by creating things. i don't think anyone ever told me this, but it's how i felt, and it's something that i regret. it's such a shame to waste the adventurousness and inventiveness of childhood by planning out kids' futures for them years before they have any inkling of what they really want to be when they grow up.
and even if what they grow up to be is a lawyer, why should that stop them from discovering other outlets for their creativity?
