By the end of my schooling I had been banned from all lessons apart from art. They all seemed trivial. Nothing happene d. Maybe an opinion would change or a formulaic problem solved but nothing in physical space changed. In art we made things, altered space, changed the world.
Under Tony Blairs tenure there was a drift toward an idea that manufacture didn't matter. Somehow we could make money from shifting information around. This is an illusion. Somewhere something needs to be done. A house built, a chair made, an engine built. Matter must be shifted, grown or shaped. Top value through trading can be made on top of this but something has to happen in reality. The idea money can endlessly come from thought and talk is wrong. The money creamed off other countries manufacturing is coming to an end. The colonial taxation gone. As a nation we will have to make stuff, to be creative. The creative industries are our second highest gross earning sector. The financial services sector is top but this is on shaky ground.
Those opposed to art in schools are those who can not see. They can not think of this elementary principle either.
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