The problem that is recurring all around the country if not the world as far as art education goes is that it is slacking. This is true statement that can be corroborated if you make comparisons between what art education in schools have been achieving in the past years, or rather thirty or so years ago and what the art education goals today are. The cause for this is that the world of education has become more competitive than ever before as all that people are worried about is whether the grades of their children are good enough in the subjects that parents believe are going to be money-generating enough at a later stage.

Art education today is almost seen as an unnecessary evil today.

But the problem is not only with the way that parents are thinking, but State Mandates have designed curriculum for students in schools in such a way that the courses are cramped with subjects that are quite far away from the arts or rather art itself.

Art education goals seem to have been very different during earlier years of education when the purpose of educating children on art had been to allow students to develop sensibilities of the world around them and to develop their creative skills, not to mention an acute form of expressing themselves. But art education in school today seems to have become only an impediment and almost like a waste of time; gone are those days where students were actually taken on art visits to museums and galleries to help them gain a closer look at what art really looked like and to broaden their minds.

Moreover, art education goals in schools today seem to have developed a purely commercial purpose. Students who are considered to be “artsy” become the more privileged students who can look forward to a career in commercial art or the advertisement world or the likes where their drawing capabilities will come in handy. Art education goals earlier on used to have a much more broad perspective. Art for art’s sake or rather art for our sake was the policy that was maintained as a part of education, but that concept seems to have completely disappeared now. The usual art education goals included the concept of students, whether they knew how to draw or not would be given a free thinking education in art and art theories so that they could broaden their minds and gain a sense of appreciation of art and the way that they look at the world. Art education goals today seem to be centered on helping students who are good at painting to utilize their capabilities commercially.

So should educational institutions and schools rethink their art education curriculum, the answer would of course be a big yes. But maybe they will or maybe they won’t. However, why should you leave it up to them? More and more parents should encourage their children to educate themselves about art through the various mediums available for them.