The Kennedy Center President on Arts Education
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Issue(s) Addressed:
Inherent value/intelligence Building society/citizenship |
Attribution
"Where Are the Arts Important?" Michael Kaiser, The Huffington Post, February 2010
Item Text
“I was reflecting on the claims of too many politicians that the arts are the province of the elite in big coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles. This is used as an excuse for denigrating public support for the arts, and by extension, the arts themselves. The argument goes that investing in the arts only affects a very small, very rich, and very concentrated segment of our population.
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"The arts affect every region of this nation...We ignore the power and potency of the arts if we assume that the only important work is happening in the big Northeast or West Coast cities. Without the availability of art and arts education throughout the country during the past centuries, our cultural heritage, a glory of our nation, would have been vastly diminished. Why is today any different?”
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Submitter Information
- Name: MENC Staff
- Email: advocacy@menc.org