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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.