Art plays a powerful role in the development of children’s minds. It teaches children to look for connections and leap into problem solving without fear.
If we want our students to have the skills to address the complexities of the future, they must believe that their ideas have value and that they can create something tangible from them. Giving art a central role in our classrooms stretches kids’ imaginations and inspires deep, synthetic thinking.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that they are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
-John Steinbeck
“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement.”
-Sir Ken Robinson