- The arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative relationships.
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Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgements rather than rules that prevail.
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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 celebrate multiple perspectives.
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One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
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The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with opportunity.
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Learning in the arts requires the ability and the willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
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The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know.
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The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
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The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
