Essay On Arts Education

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Arts Education, is it Worth the Funding Over STEM? President Barack Obama said, “The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.” (In-text) The arts have many amazing benefits to students of all creeds. Countless peer-reviewed and longitudinal studies prove this statement. Of the many countless benefits, a few are, stronger cognitive development, positive psychological and mental benefits, and the ability for high-risk students to jump the educational gap. Even more so, there are more disadvantages to cutting the arts than there are benefits. Therefore arts education deserves equal funding to STEM education to help give students a higher chance of success in life. The arts are essential to every part of life, children develop skills that are otherwise underdeveloped without the arts. Dr. David A. Sousa, a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society has said, “The arts are not just expressive and affective, they are deeply cognitive… They develop essential thinking tools” (Sousa, n.d.). The arts give children a new view of life, by developing those essential thinking tools the arts teach children how to think outside of the box. Children who learn a musical instrument, develop new motor skills and the ability to discern different tone patterns that “cause profound and…show more content…
Today employers are seeking those who can innovate, communicate, and adapt to change, these are abilities that are learned in the arts (Heilig, 2010). The arts teach children how to communicate, not necessarily through speaking, they also learn how to adapt quickly and quietly to change, as that is a commonality in the arts. An arts education gives students life skills that are not as easily learned in other
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