Note: To protect the privacy of our members, e-mail addresses have been removed from the archived messages. As a result, some links may be broken.
Find Lesson Plans on getty.edu! GettyGames

Re: a typical student question

---------

kprs_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 17:18:28 PDT

> Why do I need to take art, I am not going to be an
> artist, it will not help me in the future.

With the straightest of faces I always say "so you head
won't explode"...and leave it at that!

Actually I have been in the school so long, that I am a
curiousity, sort of like the odd thing in the junk drawer.
Kids take art classes knowing that they don't know what's
going to happen, but they know it will certainly be
interesting. Can't ask for more.

San D 

---