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Ten Lessons the Arts Teach

With the current emphasis on testing under No Child left Behind, the arts is getting squeezed out of the school curriculum. But, the reality is that the arts provide many valuable lessons for children and enable them to develop complex and subtle aspects of the mind. In this article, Elliot Eisner outlines "ten lessons" that illustrate how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. Arts education is important to children's overall development.

Filed under Parents and tagged with arts on October 17, 2008 #