When thinking about the education of our youth you want them to be the most well rounded people that they can be. When you think of the curriculum now, we are ignoring a valuable part; the art. The use of art in the curriculum for schools can make kids more apt to do well and be more creative thinkers. As the writer of “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education”, Yo-Yo Ma, says, “Empathetic thinking is something that is severely missing in education today that is only STEM oriented. everyone wants innovation, recovering that inspired and innovative spirit of JFK talking about going to the moon…. The arts teach us that there is something that connects us all and is bigger than each of us.” This is a good way of looking at society in todays world. People are trying to force the new generations into becoming the next JFK, the innovation, the inspiration that he showed. They want kids to have this by using strict systems in the schools. When I went to high school, I was blessed to have the arts and music involved in the curriculum. This helped me find my passion for art and being creative. this helped me branch out into different ways of showing my creative side. When Yo-Yo Ma talks about changing the teaching style to include arts into the core classes, I agree with him. If I hadn’t had that experience as a kid growing up, I may have had to wait till I was much older to realize how much it had impacted me.
This looks like a Barclay model that connects Ma with your own experiences. That’s great. I can see that you make a clear effort to analyze the connection. I’m missing the TREAC paragraph that includes Lehrer. Please let me know if you need help better understanding this difficult text.