The best one hopes for is a favorable atmosphere In adult conversations and surroundings and reading habits. John D. Rockefeller III has said. "We need the arts If we are to be whole human beingsfully alive and vital and in control of ourselves and of our environment." Rockefeller also quotes William Saroyans definition of the purpose of the arts: "To give the traveling human race an improved map that. shows the way to itself." We look to the schools to acquaint children with the arts as we looked to them to assimilate the immigrant and to meet the challenge of Sputnik. But the schools are dedicated to joboriented studies. Arts educationis considered a separate matter. not woven into the fabric of general education.
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