The teaching of “Drawing” should be given priority in the education of our children.
Aristotle (350B.C.E./2004), “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them: for these only gave them life, those are the art of living.” Drawing can be viewed as Art; it is not just an activity, it is life our interpretation of receiving information through our imagination, senses, feelings, emotions and experiences which cause us to expressed it in a creative and artistic manner; especially through visual. Hence, the importance for fine arts to be more value and taught to our children.
Many may argued that in our society today art has become perverted and accepted. The true meaning and perception of art has change and to an extent lost. Resulting, in schools not making it a priority on their curriculum, they claim the misconception of it being superfluous and it is also isolated from other subject areas. Examinations don’t require art so why bother have the children waste their time, when they need to be studying the facts of content in subject areas. It’s
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This art can be of great help and lead to higher attendance at school interestingly stimulating the minds of those children. As stated by Rychkov (2015), “The poor cannot cope without help.’’ Thus, higher attendance equals lower percentage in school dropouts, it becomes empowering for those children who society may place on the low socio-economic scale. With this exposure which may include other arts, such as; music and reading increases their brain power, as seen in the argument of Aristotle (350B.C.E./2004), “Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in