Reducing arts education also reduces the ability of a young person to resist negative messages that are embedded in music, visual arts, and poetic language. It is far easier to impress and sway a mind that is naive than it is to do so with one that has been educated and exposed to a variety of expressional forms.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS CAME FROM BUT I DO AGREE!
Het Parool, October 29th 2010