An education
in the arts encourages high achievement.
• Study of the arts encourages a suppleness
of the mind, a toleration
for ambiguity, a taste for nuance, and the ability
to make trade-offs among alternative
courses of action.
• Study of the arts helps students to think
and work across traditional disciplines.
They learn both to integrate knowledge and
to "think outside
the box."
• An education in the arts teaches student
how to work together cooperatively.
• An education in the arts builds an understanding
of diversity and the multi-cultural dimensions
of our world.
• An arts education insists on the value of
content, which helps students understand "quality" as
a key value.
• An arts education contributes to technological
competence.
