Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.