I worry that our focus on raising the level of education in America has put extraordinary emphasis on training students in practical subjects that seem to lead more directly to work and jobs, leaving behind study of the arts and humanities that can tap a spiritual side of us that should not be ignored.
In high schools and colleges, poetry cannot be pushed aside by an acute focus on mathematics and science. Although these subjects are important for the future of the American worker and economy, we must simultaneously embrace the arts — poetry and literature and painting and theater. Without the arts and humanities, we risk losing our true selves and our fragile understanding and relationship with the awe-inspiring reality of our lives and the world we momentarily inhabit.
With poetry and the arts, we embrace new perspectives that lead to creative solutions, inventions, and successes, and if we embrace poetry, we will be on a path toward a continuously brighter, kinder and more caring future.
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