The Importance of Art in Education – Part 3

In our previous blog we talked about the furthering or Christian ideals through the medium of fine arts and inspiration, in this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of a wide variety of arts and skill sets being fostered from an early age. Encourage your child’s passions by ensuring that their education features creativity and adaptive learning techniques at Resurrection Christian School.

Varied Art Forms

The notion of including fine arts in education promotes the idea of varied forms of art. Where a child might thrive with music, they might fall short in terms of literature. The constant, steady exposure of both forms of fine challenges the student and encourages growth and the practice of rising to the challenge. In turn, this is meant to promote self-learning skills. Creativity bats down the child’s instinct to merely regurgitate facts rather than absorb and analyze materials and thus grow from the experience of learning as well as their new knowledge. As Christians, we believe heartily in providing for the students that occupy a lower socioeconomic status and the overwhelming majority of the research regarding the fine arts in education support that children that are from financially struggling families see significant growth when interacting with fine arts at school. Specifically, the effects of music education aiding the mathematical portion of the brain and showing significant improvement throughout their school careers.

The Culture

While there is a litany of benefits for the academic portion of including fine arts within the educational programs that we willingly enlist our children in, but what’s more is the culture that’s supported throughout it. Understanding and sharing other cultures and then trying pieces out in your own creative process is one of the most enriching activities you can spend your time doing. Part of the beauty of fine art is the exquisite opportunity it gives you to glimpse the world through someone else’s eyes, or better yet, to glimpse a completely different world. Like when you read “Animal Farm” in high school and getting to peek at the state of Russia during the Soviet revolution. Or perhaps you had an art teacher that greatly appreciated the beauty of Japanese art and exposed you to Eastern culture that would eventually influence how you grew partial to flowers in your later years. As culture is one of the most valuable assets of the human existence, sharing it early on with our youth is more of a duty, than an option. Through self-expression and problem-solving skills, our children will eventually become the great minds of tomorrow that are creating new milestones of culture and makes of human progression and development.

Fine Arts In Education Is Near You

If you’re interested in investing in your child and ensuring that they have access to the best education possible, you might consider a private school. Here at Resurrection Christian School, we believe that a well-rounded education is grounded in fine arts as well as mathematics, sciences and varied literature studies that will not only form a functional adult of tomorrow but a learned human. We’re certain to incorporate different cultures as well as a diverse list of fine arts classes that apply the various developing skills of a child in different ways. Foster their love of story-telling, their love of musical harmonies and teamwork or even just the quiet, meditative art of drawing or painting. Each and every one of us deserves a passion in our lives to make the monotony of responsibilities and other inconveniences seem dwarfed. Feel free to check out our curriculum for high school, middle school and elementary to find out just how much we value fostering a passion in your child. If you’re looking for ways to foster and encourage an appreciation for fine arts in your everyday life with your child, check out our blog.