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Why The Arts is more important than you think | David Lim | TEDxYouth@ISBangkok


how many of you have gone is watch a
cultural convention of it that includes
any musical drama debate or dance
performance raise your hand this son
raise your hand if you gone to see a
sports event at an ISS tournament you
guys take a look around for yourselves
you can roughly see a difference around
three to one
for those who gonna watch a sports event
versus those who’ve gone to watch an
arts event but why is that
is it because sports are just more
interesting to watch what is it because
the sports events were more publicized
and your teachers led you out of class
to go watch them well either way it
shows a clear preference for sports
people view is B as a very well-rounded
school and I’m not here to say that it’s
not but I’m also not going to say that
it completely deserves that title have
you ever wondered why the I speak
graduation requirements include only one
credit for art but one-and-a-half
credits of physical education or have
you ever heard of the phrase cc or
cultural convention is not a real
elias’s it’s well in reality CC cannot
get any more real according to the
Americans for the Arts 72% of business
leaders around the world say that
creativity is the number one component
that they look for in potential
employees this means that the skills
required for CC such as complex and
creative cognitive capacities will land
you a job in the future for instance if
you were a lawyer you may be asked to
present while coherent and structured
arguments your participation in CC
debate will instill in you the
experience and confidence to thrive in
this field it is not unheard of that
schools in the United States reduce the
number of arts programs that they have
due to certain budget cuts in fact a few
years ago a public high school in Wilson
North Carolina was forced to cut their
jazz band program due to this very issue
furthermore the Trump administration is
against the arts their proposal aims to
acts the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Corporation for National and
Community Service this could result in
the decrease in the number of arts
teachers in the United States by 50%
Mick Mulvaney the White House budget
director announced that this decision
was made due to their belief that
investing in the arts was not a way to
use money properly but higher rates of
college enrollment higher career goals
more civically involved citizens raised
student attendance enhanced student
creativity and strengthened executive
attention Network now would you say that
these traits which are all derived from
the arts are not worth investing in the
arts and the academic learning actually
go hand in hand without the skills
obtained from the arts there are be no
driving force behind all of their
learning as Eric Jensen an American
neuroscientist put it the arts enhanced
the process of learning now at this
point I want y’all to clear minds and
picture musical performance pages of
black notes coming to life as students
begin to interpret the story behind the
musical language multiple bodies
becoming one which is the Swift movement
of the conductor’s baton the silence
broken by a colorful Symphony now this
time imagine the stiffness of a dark
stage as a delicate movement of dancers
start to bring light their lips remain
closed yet the audience hears a story
passion overflows with every single step
that they take here’s a story of a
typical outcast they feel out of place
and the only way they can feel connected
to the world is through the stroke of a
pencil they pour out their dreams their
canvas becomes their future and they now
have hope this is the power of the Arts
they go beyond what we can just simply
measure the Arts has the ability to
influence our lives for the better it’s
as simple as that research shows that
students out of a high participation in
art have a dropout rate of around 4
percent which is actually five times
lower than the dropout rate of those
with a low participation art
additionally students that take at least
four years of art have been found to
score 58 points higher on the verbal and
38 points higher on the math section for
the SAT along with these improved test
scores art is also known to help develop
essential parts in our brain in fact a
study with an fMRI showed that students
that were involved in producing art
showed greater spatial improvement
and functional connectivity which is
related to psychological resilience or
stress resistance so art is not only
just a way of creatively expressing our
work but it is also a significant
predictor of a student’s later academic
achievement and involvement in society
these benefits highlight how detrimental
it is for these American Public Schools
to be cutting their arts programs but
fortunately for us is B has taken a
different approach in contrast in
contrast to most American schools is P
actually invest more money in their arts
department than the Athletics mr.
DeVries our chief financial officer
stated that this year’s budget expense
for the Arts was 16 million baht
contrastingly this year’s budget expense
for the Athletics was 9 million baht
furthermore the CC building was a 380
million baht investment which is 150
million baht more expensive than the
investment made in the Sports Complex so
with their high budgets and willingness
to advance the arts program it is clear
that iced tea provides a suitable
balance between the arts athletics and
academic programs the next step that is
B could take to incorporate this
philosophy into the curriculum by
adjusting the graduation requirements to
reflect it however this ice piece
perspective on the arts reflect the
perspective of its students without much
research we can see that the number of
students is substantially higher in the
athletics program than these arts and
why is that I believe the main reason
for this is because we as a student body
do not recognize the true importance of
the Arts and the many benefits that it
holds for us
we are fortunate enough to go to school
that not only provides but supports
diverse programs well no matter how much
our skies be offers and promotes the
Arts we will not benefit from it unless
we are willing to try it out for
ourselves be in music drama dance or
Visual Arts they’re all unique realms
waiting to be explored so why waste this
opportunity that is B provides for you
why waste your chance at improving your present and future life thank you
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