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Unlike
much of the curriculum in which correct answers and
rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than
rules that prevail.
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that questions can have more than one answer.
One of their large
lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret
the world.
purposes are seldom
fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a
willingness to surrender to the unanticipated
possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
what we can know. The limits of our language do not
define the limits of our cognition.
The arts traffic in
subtleties.
All art forms employ some means through which images
become real.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art
helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic
capacities to find the words that will do the job.
and through such
experience to discover the range and variety of what we
are capable of feeling.
what adults believe is
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