Harry Broudy advocated arts education for all students rather than just for those gifted or highly interested in art, placing the arts at the center of education. Harry Broudy, according to Liora Bresler, one of the editors of Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day [Routledge, 2001], shows through developed argument how the discipline of arts…
Public education often considers fine arts classes and programs expendable luxuries. This article explores how beneficial the fine arts are in education. It is no secret that, when faced with recession pressures and budget cuts, most American public school systems decrease funding for fine arts programs or cut them entirely. Reasons cited for these decisions include fine arts do not…