Arts Programs Quotes

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle school. Then, when high school came, I went to normal high school for a little while before auditioning for the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.

I'd clean house at the National Endowment for the Arts ... the place would be shut down, padlocked and fumigated.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.