When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
Interpretation
Art education is crucial and should not be neglected, even during financial difficulties.
This quote emphasizes the importance of preserving art education in schools, particularly during budget cuts. Susan Vreeland reflects on how, despite economic hardships nearby, there remained a spirit of creativity and artistic expression, highlighting that art is valuable and should be prioritized in education.
In practice
During a school board meeting discussing budget allocations.
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.
They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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