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Stepping Into the Future
Author(s) -
Paquette Mary
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2000.tb00683.x
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , history , library science , computer science
In a convocation ad dress entitled “The Educated Person vs. the Fine Arts", Samuel Adler, Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York, talked about how the edu cated person should use the fine arts to enrich his/her life. Adler started by saying that the American people use liberal arts schools as Job training centers. For education to be successful, it must stimulate the de sire to leam more “How can we educate the whole person?" Adler's answer to this w a s “through the fine arts " He continued by saying that the fine arts do not give solutions. Rather, they put people in a situation that could change them individually. He said that “failure to taste the arts Impoverishes our life." In his closing comment. Adler said to "take advantage oi the educa-