Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The School Arts Book, Vol. 9: September, 1909 to June, 1910
Now, if art education were suficiently attended to through all our schools and in all our colleges, there would gradually grow up in American society considerable numbers of persons whose artistic sense had been somewhat trained. What would be the consequence of that improvement? The consequence would be that there would go down through the subsequent generations an inherited faculty in art, an inherited sensibility to artistic immessions, and a new capacity for enjoyment. I have personally known a mature woman who had the faculty Of sketching with pencil and brush, and who took the trouble to interest her children in sketching; and now I. Have seen the children of these children develop the same faculty. This artistic sense and this capacity for enjoyment have been possessed already by three generations, and their lives have been greatly enriched by the possession. From that one woman started this potent stream, potent in cultivating the accurate use Of the senses, potent, also, in supplying great elements of enjoyment all through life. This is the first, and perhaps the most pre cious result that ought to ?ow from the adequate development of art instruction in American schools and colleges.
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