http://www.maryheathernoble.com/art-basic-need/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=art-basic-need Environmental Scientist. Writer. Mother. Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 http://www.maryheathernoble.com/art-basic-need/#comment-251 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:17:08 +0000 http://www.maryheathernoble.com/?p=652#comment-251 Well-said, Mary Heather. I hope you send this to the local newspaper, too. I especially love this line: “…the culture part of our habitat is being leached to such a degree that a student’s first exposure to the personal essay might be on a college application.” While I don’t personally think education should be a “job-training” program, I’m continually astonished that those who do (and who control how resources are allocated at our public schools) don’t recognize the huge contribution to the economy from the arts (ever noticed how many names are in the credits of a single movie?). It just doesn’t connect. And on a side note, thanks for the reference to Brian Doyle–I just read the “Coda” by him in this month’s Orion, and it reminded me to go and find another short piece by him that I’d clipped a couple years ago. I love how once a name pops up, it keeps coming up again and again. And I’m excited to read more by him.

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