My Journey Starts- Diving into Arts Education....

I JUST finished The Arts and the Creation of Mind by Elliot Eisner. Ohmigod I wish every teacher and every student who wants to live life fully would read this. Every politician who thinks test scores, norms, and percentages are needed to create successful schools should be mandated to understand the premise of good teaching and artistic education.
Art education is about life, seeing life, living fully and appreciatively, maintaining joy and imagination and inventiveness in our daily adventures. And it is about art students and art teachers- who we are, what we know, what we look for, and the possibilities of every little single thing we do, hear, see, feel. I SO recommend this book to be on the bookshelf of every inquiring mind!

I like this: "Why does a nation as diverse as ours need a common curriculum? Is there only one defensible conception of a good curriculum, a good school, or a good teacher? In a nation that boasts that one of its strengths is its diversity, are differences in the way the subjects are conceptualized exempted from that diversity?"
All subjects, the very culture of our schools, should be taught with passion and imagination!
THANK YOU Elliot Eisner!! (p163 The Arts and the Creation of Mind)