Creating Will
And this is the reason that art is an important part of education:
Art and music develops the will, the ability to enact change in the world. At birth, children are unable to create what they want from the world. By moving through the world children begin to discover that their actions can change their environment. If they step on soft earth the earth moves and is different from what it was before they touched it. By piling leafs and twigs on top of each other they create a structure that could not exist without their presence. In a similar fashion, by dipping a paint brush and sweeping it across a canvas they create something that was not there before. Every brush stroke, every sound played on the violin, every gesture that molds clay into a new form develops the ability to mold people’s environment to their inspiration. People learn to take an idea that arises in their minds and change the environment that creates order and a pattern that was not there before. The act of doing these things gradually enables them to produce more complex forms that existed only in their minds. It is only by doing that they develop this ability. Lessons learned from teachers exists only in their minds. The lesson remains only in their mind until they perform an action that transfers the idea into a physical manifestation in the world. The idea now exists in a physical form in the world. By doing, children develop the capacity to do things with the need for external support. Before, children needed an authoritative figure to instruct them what to do. Now their prompt exists only from within. Their will develops through doing. Doing should be an integral part of children’s education because doing develops their will, and through their will, children can bring change and new form into the world
