Art Courses for the Elementary Teacher

The indispensableness of creative art in the elementary and secondary schools is becoming more generally accepted in most contemporary educational thought. The values contributed to the individual by the creative thinking, the growing awareness, and the personal feeling and knowledge involved in painting, drawing, sculpture, and design are not gained in any other discipline in quite the scope or depth in which they are achieved in the arts. Consequently, the art education of the elementary school teacher is extremely important, for it is she who can neglect and hamper, or inspire and further, the creative growth of children. At any stage in a child's progress through school, an improperly or insufficiently educated teacher can seriously thwart his development in the power to feel, search, discover, and know, which becomes refined through meaningful art experiences.