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Gotta remember, it's not what you teach, it's how you have students process that content. Not just art history, but as an art historian. Not just aesthetics, but designing. Not just visual literacy but thinking visually.

"This reason for including Art in the general curriculum- Art educates the imagination- is one of the central ideas in discipline-based art education. Humans understand experiences only when the mind gives those experiences order." Professor W. Dwaine Greer.

Published in 1998 (I started teaching in 1993), from one of the framers & advocates of Discipline Based Art Education (DBAE) that I was taught by such great professors at Concordia University, Nebraska. Art isn't just for a few gifted & talented kids who'll end up being professional artists- Art helps kids think and thinking helps them learn & better curious, which they need for school & for life.