The World of Dance

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way, it is rewarding. - Margot Fonteyn (Peggy Hookham)

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

10) The Arts Teach children that there are no limitations to the impact each person can have on the world.

Adapted from Beyond creating: The Place for Art in America's Schools. by Elliot Eisner, PhD Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 1985

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

9) The Arts teach children to articulate and expand upon the range and variety of their emotional capability.

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

8) The Arts teach children to think through and within various materials.

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

7) The Arts teach children that small differences can have large effects. Children in the Arts appreciate and understand subtleties.

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

6) The Arts teach children that the limits of language are not limits on cognition or expression. Neither words nor numbers exhaust what we can know, feel or ultimately become.

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

5) The arts teach children to embrace change.

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

4. The arts teach children that there are many ways to interpret the world.

Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

3. The arts teach children that questions are often more useful than answers.

Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

2) The Arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

10 Lessons Children Learn from the Arts

1. The Arts teach children how to understand qualitative relationships. While many subjects only value correct answers and rules, the arts promote sound judgment rather than absolute values.