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What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.

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Elliot W. Eisner

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

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The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

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The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.

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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

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The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

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