The Arts Shouldn’t Be Pushed Out of Schools
Schools around the world are increasingly focusing on supposedly useful methods of learning such as reading, writing, science, and maths. This is of course essential for every school child — they need to be able to read in order to be able to participate in life in a very basic way. Similarly they need maths to be able to make the sort of basic calculations in order to do their jobs. It’s obvious why people would want this to happen, because giving people basic literacy skills is essential.
But among all of this talk it is very quickly forgotten exactly how important it is to educate everyone in the arts too. Growing up and working in an office to compare landlords insurance all day long is all well and good, but very drab - we should encourage kids to express themselves a bit more, and the arts are a great way of doing this.
The arts make creative individuals who are able to use skills above and beyond the basic literacy and maths problem solving. They are able to analyse and think critically in a much more complex way. Similarly, role play as part of a varied education will teach children important executive function skills and enable them to better listen in future lessons and develop skills such as patience and social understanding that will really help them in their future education and career.
Most importantly of all though, arts education is essential in order to create a thriving democracy where the children understand that there is more to life than school, and that we must work to protect important institutions such as democracy and other things. It’s also important to create children who can express themselves artistically in order to help combat stress and make themselves well rounded individuals, and it’s also necessary for them to have skills that make them nice people well prepared for the journey of life with a commitment to the sort of moral standards that the arts can convey.
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