The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...


p. 144 - Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)


The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is...

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is...

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is...

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is...