“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players,” (Shakespeare), meaning the whole world is like a stage show and humans are the actors. Theater is represented in any imaginable way, so why is it not good enough for a simple required subject in school? Fine arts especially drama, dance, and art programs get cut from high schools due to the expenses that go into them. People say theater is not needed for the future, no help in the “real world”, and it’s not a life skill. However theater is much more than an elective or an “easy A”, theater is something that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Theater arts is just as educational as the rest of the common core courses. By allowing high schools to embrace the true meaning of theater will cause an outbreak of development towards the mental and physical capacity of a highschool student; therefore, theater should be a required academic class and not an optional course of study in high school.
Theater can be taught in many different ways with many different stories, as well as educating yourself, theater teaches you lessons but in a different way than math or english would.
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So what? Theater just gets taken away, which is too heartbreaking to understand when it’s not within people’s grasps. Theater might not be an essential for survival but the importance of this argument is that it can improve in the educational system. And isn’t that what it is all about? It shouldn’t matter how we choose to learn the lecture, material, or lesson, but as long as we understand the concept to the fullest capacity can fit. According to Dr. Wu, “To change behavior, it's important to give children brief and powerful messages several times and consistently” (Wu), as he explains how the child's brain is still developing and needs brief and powerful messages consistently. Which theater is the perfect remedy for what Dr. Wu is