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Arts education isn’t a soft subject, it gives us:
- Idea Solving
- Creativity
- Reflection
Similarly, Annette Bryd of GlaxoSmithKline said: “We need people who think with the creative side of their brains—people who have played in a band, who have painted...it enhances symbiotic thinking capabilities, not always thinking in the same paradigm, learning how to kick-start a new idea, or how to get a job done better, less expensively.”
When John Nash says arts subjects are a soft subject, research has shown all he is doing is ensuring children from diverse backgrounds not previously associated with the arts avoid these subjects, limiting who becomes the innovators, artists and reflectors of our society, and limiting whose voices, experiences and perspectives on the world we read and see and are influenced by.