File puptcrit/puptcrit.0607, message 115


From: Jimsan777-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 05:02:03 EDT
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Slightly Off-Topic: Arts in schools



In a message dated 7/7/06 6:38:44, HobgoblinH-AT-aol.com writes:

Dear Critters:   Re: previous comments...

Obviously people learn in many ways, by instruction, by observation, by 
experimentation.... I've found the shortest way to learning is by using EVERY WAY 
possible.   Even the previous writer admits to her sister being her best 
teacher.   Van Goghs are few and far between... but why did he cut off his own ear?

None of us are too old to learn, even by watching BAD puppet shows...Jim 
Gamble 

> 
> I do not feel that grousing about mediocre arts education in schools is
> productive. My public school had art classes -- dreadful painting classes, 
> but
> painting classes nonetheless. Band. But I did not take band. Theater. But I 
> never
> got a part. I did/could not take art classes because I sensed I could not
> learn there. In college, when I did take a painting class, it was the same. 
> I
> could not learn from the teacher. One can learn-- and van Gogh demonstrates 
> this
> particularly-- by doing, and by seeing all the other works of art one can in
> libraries and museums.
> I have to think my best art lessons came from my sister, who would tell me
> what assignments she had in art class. (She was able to learn from art 
> class).
> Then I would do the same assignments during English class or biology or 
> later
> in psychological statistics; whatever. Sometimes for years at a time. When I
> wanted to learn to carve, I asked my father to teach me. He refused. 
> Probably
> his arthritis was such that he couldn't by then. But I just had to learn, so 
> I
> did. By doing it. If the day ever came that I was inclined to complain that 
> my
> work did not make enough money or receive sufficient attention, I would 
> think
> on van Gogh.=A0
> 

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