National Endowment For The Arts Views On Education
"The purpose of education in this nation has always been pulled between a vocational and utilitarian pole on one hand and a broader civilizing, or holistic view on the other. The current move to rethink, even reinvent education is unprecedented. The opportunity for the arts to be included in this effort is real."
"We are rapidly entering a world no one has imagined, to enter without the power, the thinking, the creativity, the discipline and the energy, and the unique forms of apprehending and organizing knowledge that the arts offer would be a serious loss to our capacity as individuals and as a notion of learners."
David O'Fallon Ph.D.
Director, Arts in Education Program
National Endowment for the Arts