"Science will . . . produce the data. . ., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need. . . most of all the brains of poets, {and} also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians, writers in general."   Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"Pyramids, cathedrals and rockets exits not because of geometry, theories of structures or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture - literally a vision - in the minds of those who built them."  Historian Eugene Ferguson

Every child has the innate urge and capacity to be artistically expressive. Arts education requires students draw upon their creative abilities and to deepen them, as well. The benefits is that creative thinking, once learned early, lasts for a lifetime and can be applied in other endeavors. The School Mind: Do the Arts Make a Difference? An Empirical Evaluation of the Hamilton Fairfield SPECTRA + Program, 1992-93, by Richard L. Lifting, 1994