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Arts Education Policy Review, January, 2002 by O'Brien, Tom
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What can arts educators do in response to September 11? Many answers to this question are complex, but one is simple and most important: more of the same. The arts, properly taught, are a means of ennobling character and enriching civilization--one thing that, given its hatred of art and music, Al Qaeda will not have to worry itself over.
The arts can also perform a therapeutic role, at least sometimes--not the cliched "closure" brought to you by modern grief counselors but purgative catharsis, courtesy of Aristotle. Keats--not some impecunious medical student who ...
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