If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.
There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.
I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.
Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.
Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.