Art as a School Subject

Art as a School Subject

Drawing should not be a school subject past third grade. It can become, and usually is, a very personal activity. Anything a person creates comes from his or her soul. By critiquing it, you can really break that person. Even when done with the purest intention of helping and with the gentlest of words, it becomes very disheartening.

Aside from that, at a certain age, kids automatically compare their own faults to those of others around them. Here, I'm assuming third grade and up, which might not always be true. In any case, it does occur, and it can have a very negative impact on a child whose horse persists to look like a dog, while fifteen perfectly lifelike horses are being drawn around him by his own peers.

My final point is that drawing should be a spontaneous and loose activity. You should be able to draw whatever you are good at and enjoy drawing. Anything you create will come straight from your soul, not from an assignment book.