Assignment #4School is an institution for the education of children and adults who desire to succeed and enrich themselves. However, schools around the world are closing extracurricular activities and cutting outclassed courses like art, ceramics, band, choir, orchestra and dance that give students the potential to thrive in their lives. People say they want their children to be well-rounded, confident, and intelligent, but they are dismissing the lessons that are essential to building any of these. Schools should not cut fine arts programs because this can lead to students becoming less socially confident, experiencing difficulties with motor skills and spatial intelligence, and losing creativity later in life. Art is almost everywhere: in homes, in supplies, in human souls and even in domestic environments. the food that people eat. It gives people substance in their lives and a feeling of excitement. Society unconsciously pushes young people to become creative, but now it is becoming difficult to do so because these people lack the skills and talent essential for innovation. In the book Strong Arts, Strong Schools, by Charles Fowler, he states: “Although the American public tends to underestimate the arts industry as tiny and insignificant, it is actually a major driver of the economy” (17). Fowler conveys the significance that art has in American society because it is considered a commodity in modern times. A performance or a work of art, for example, is "sold" to observers and patrons. This art enriches the lives of buyers and is often the livelihood of the producer of the art. Art is timeless. It changes or becomes “historic”; art patrons preserve it in paintings, recordings, photographs, and so on. With greater exposure to art......middle of paper......Strong Arts, Strong Schools. New York, New York. Oxford UniversityPress, 1996. Print. “Fact Sheet on the Benefits of Arts Education for Children.” www.artsusa.org, 2013. 5 November. 2013. http://www.artsusa.org/get_involved/advocacy/funding_resources/default_005.asp Rickarda, Nikki, Jorge Vasqueza, Fintan Murphy, Anneliese Gilla, et al. “Benefits of a classroom instrumental music program on the verbal memory of primary school children: a longitudinal study.” files.eric.ed.gov, 2010. December 10, 2013. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ912414.pdfWilmerding, Virginia, Donna Krasnow.“Motor Learning and Teaching Dance.”www.iadms. org. International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, 2009. November 5, 2013. “The Benefits of Music Education” and “Playing Music is Good for the Brain.” www.vh1savethemusic.org, Vh1 Save the Music Foundation, 2013. November 5. 2013.