In the past, classrooms were dictated around the idea that
the teacher was right and the
children were minds to be molded through the intellect of their professor. In a
much more progressive age, the student body is gaining more power as far as their
education in art. While creativity is of more value than anything else in the
art classroom, without traditional education first, It’s difficult for children
to understand the processes of how to use certain materials, how to compare
styles of different artists, even how to critique each other which is critical
in art education. Without constructive criticism, how are students motivated to
improve, to experiment, to search for innovation?
I believe that letting students run free within the confines
of instructions for a project is the best way for them to learn without walking
all over their teacher. Children have an inherent love of the brainchildren of
their own imaginations. That much will be consistent with class after class of
kids. Their understanding of art principles, however, will never be able to
dialogue with this sense of imagination unless they begin learning it at a
young age.
Throughout school, the curricula always forced you to take
prerequisite art classes, which were often dry and instructive, only so you
could reach the dynamic higher-level courses. In these courses, there was
little instruction and students were set free to create essentially anything
they wanted while following the broad guidelines of assignments. I dreaded the
prerequisites at the time I was in them, but in retrospect, they benefited me
in ways I can’t even explain, and provided me with skills I constantly use as
an art student. You can bend the rules
once you learn them—pushing boundaries is the basis for successful works of art—but
you can’t utilize them if you have no idea they exist.
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