a government that represents the people, as described in the constitution, being a responsible for the general welfare of the people, you want to make sure that your population gets exposure to t things that will help them. there are statistics from the americans for the arts. for instance, i think that if mostot mothers new that if their child had a completen curriculum in the arts, their child would be three times more likely to graduate from high school. that is a vaccination against all kinds of social ills. that would keep kids out of the criminal justice system, the welfare system. tucker: i am not against that. we could just fix this problem immediately if the people who benefited from the economy in the last ten years, the least generous generation of rich people this country has ever seen, would it change their ways andor start finding things for e commonta good. they could start here. you should you have their numbers. youav should call them. i don t have their numbers.
if yocurl.if you have creative t force these people have creative imagination. if you expose people to the arts. engineer without creative training technician, cog in the machine. an engineer with creative training with imagination is going continue to vent the machine. tucker: that s a pretty closer argument and nobody is against creativity. i m emphatically for it which is why i m against arts funding because it kills it anything you subsidize through federal bureaucracy makes you less creative. leaving that aside is there is a study that points to that looking at any funding arts produces more creativity than going to nascar event. absolutely. americans for the arts have collected data on this for decades. and, for instance, you know, if you tucker: they tracked people that have gone to na installations over times longitudinal to say they are more creative. let me give you example. i cut my teeth at a theater in rhode island where you went to school i believe.
ours that provide quality music and arts education programs to public schools or after school programs are often looked to to either replace programs that have been cut or to subsidize programs whose budgets are feeling the impact. i know will are some listening to this say it s understandable that those things would be cut first so that you can sink your money into other things that children are being taught in school that are perhaps more important. well, research has shown and statistics have shown and if you go to americans for the arts website, that music education in particular has really impacts student s academic achievement. they track into high school and college a quality music education really should be aligned as part of the daily