I'm wondering if there has been progress in
art education in the public (or private...) schools
since I was in one in the 1950s.

I went to an upscale public school, where the
principal was a PhD before every principal had
to be one to collect a paycheck.

We had maybe 6 art class periods per semester, mostly
pottery.

I learned two things of lasting value from
this experience:

(1) There was not way I was going to make
anything of value in this class.

(2) This was yet another way to make me feel
meaningless and insignificant -- which I
was already well aware I was.

If art education in the schools has not
gotten beyond this, I say better without it.

Yet again: "Never again."

\brad mccormick

--
  Let your light so shine before men,
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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