I read an article today that discussed art in preschools, and how it is taught today. It had interviewed a woman that ran an community art school. She noticed a decreased attendance in her children's art classes. When asked why, she explained that she felt a number of parents didn't feel that enrolling their child in art classes was worth anything if there was no finished product in the end. If the art that they came up with resembled anything learnt outside the school, it meant they were not learning anything.
We are all born with the same ability to create, to express ourselves through some medium. My question is this: In a society where so much emphasis is put on success and failure, are we trading in our instinctual urge to create for a finished product?
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