Rather on a glowing computer or an old fashioned sheet of paper, you
write a lot in school. And I mean a lot. Essays, poetry, lab reports,
paragraphs, random blog posts, slideshows. At the end of a typical
school day you will probably have started at least two rough drafts,
finished your essay about that one book you can’t even remember the
name of, and have a really bad hand cramp. But what if school wasn’t
like that? What if it was different? What if instead of this:
The girl sat in the emerald green grass
The wind rustling her hair
As a shooting star flew past
It was this:
| Graphite |
What if instead of a teacher telling you to “write an essay”, a teacher
would tell you to “draw an illustration?”
For starters, the school supplies list would look a little different:
| Digital |
And it would probably cost more than the usual school list, because art
supplies can be fairly expensive. Yet you don’t have to buy a pack of
pencils that costs one hundred dollars, you could get the cheaper
brands, like Crayola.
Instead of kids holding their pencils like this to write their ABCs:
They would hold them like this, to draw the ABCs:
But most importantly, drawing in school inspires and nurtures creativity. I believe that we don’t incorporate enough art into day’s curriculum. That doesn’t mean that we necessarily need to replace writing with drawing, but I think that we definitely should integrate more art into our everyday school lives. Art can inspire and motivate people, and we need something that will do that in our world right now.

