On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Sruthi Krishnan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> That's why drawing should be made compulsory in schools. :D >> > > No...I believe that it's something you can, or cannot, do...like > singing...I know several people who canNOT sing. > Some would say the same holds true for them when it comes to mathematics. Yet we poke and prod all of our kids into a minimum of 10 years of maths. Some of us learn to like it and even get good at it. I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam earlier this week, and it was an amazing revelation for me that even an inspired genius like Van Gogh attended painting lessons all through his life and clearly got better over time. His paintings from his early years are incomparable to his paintings from near the end of his days where his talent shines a few orders of magnitude brighter. If even Van Gogh can be taught to draw, then surely us talentless mortals can at least learn the basics in school? Cheeni
