Klarinet Archive - Posting 000259.txt from 2004/04

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] The value of performing arts education
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:53:05 -0400

> From: Patricia A. Smith [mailto:arlyss1@-----.net]
>
> Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>
> > I *have to say* that the manner in which all of their
> personalities and self-confidence have changed during the last
> six months makes it *absolutely clear to me* that performing arts
> education is equally as important, albeit in a different way and
> measured by entirely different parameters, as is "3Rs" education.
> >
> It is for EXACTLY this reason that we need performing and visual arts in
> education as a part of the regular curriculum. They help young people
> develop particular tools for living that, otherwise, would be left to
> wither and die.

This is also the rationale for sports activities; if you want to promote the
arts you'll need to differentiate and quantify, otherwise you're competing
for the same dollar. The spectacle of sports makes in innately attractive to
the general public and thus it is easier to sell to that same public.

Mark C.

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