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Excellent show on teaching creativity!

I am a retired art teacher--and classroom teacher--.  Hopefully your presentation will help to foster more "seeds" for art in all its forms.

The private schools still have their art/music teachers for the most part, but I feel for those children who are missing out on educating the right side of their brains.

Children are naturally motivated when it comes to art and I'm speaking to the visual arts but it may be true for all the others.  In other subjects, I had to come up with a motivator, some involvement to draw in the student.  Not so for art.  They were always ready to pile in to whatever the task at hand was that day.

Keep up the good work.

sml

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