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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.

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.

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.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.