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What do the arts bring to education? : Comments

By Jane Gooding-Brown, published 23/11/2010

Why do we teach the arts in schools? Understanding the importance of the arts in contemporary education.

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The article was about visual arts and music in schools, not Arts degrees at universities (a totally different beastie), and contends these areas of endeavour provide various educational benefits and are threatened by things like NAPLAN, which push teachers and students to concentrate on the tested areas of maths and english.
A teacher I know said that creativity is the rarest and most precious thing in children, not intelligence (intelligence is quite common).
Music and visual arts students (and also students who are good at sports) are a school's ambassadors, not those who score highest in maths and english (with the possible exception of academically selective schools).
We are all bored with NAPLAN already...
Posted by Johnj, Thursday, 25 November 2010 9:23:48 PM
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11265#190247

Squeers, Motivation of the communists is easy to explain.

Some of them think that they, can become the new ruling elite 1% of the population that owns &/or controls almost all of the wealth, resources & us "Cattle". Before the "Iron Curtain" fell in 1989, the ruling left wing elites in all Communist nations lived a similar lavish, lifestyle to the super, rich capitalists. It still is that way today in "Communist" nations.

Why are the conservatives in the US called "Republicans"? Because they were the thinking, centrist, conservative, middle class, revolutionaries who established the "Republic". The left, or Democrats in America were invented, created, by International Banksters, British & European Royalty to stop the proletariat from co-operating with each other.

Have you not heard about Lenin's "useful scoundrels & idiots"? That's what "The Left" are, useful to the "International Banksters".

Marx did not even write the "Communist Manifesto". It had already been written nearly a century before by scheming Illuminati, International Banksters, European Aristocracy & Freemasons. Adam Weishaupt wrote it, Engels later edited it & handed it on to Marx for Spingandaring it into language more suitable to the later industrial revolutionary times.

http://www.angelfire.com/music2/fullcircle/mas2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt

Ditto for Britain BTW. The Tories were the thinking, centrist, middle class, conservatives who opposed the "Wigs" or Aristocracy in parliament.

A strong, healthy, functional, close family that is part of a similar extended family, which is in turn, part of a clan, tribe &/or Christian congregation is a co-operative, social unit. Sounds like a commune to me.
Posted by Formersnag, Saturday, 27 November 2010 5:04:55 PM
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