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that can be pushed to the shoulder of the curriculum, it is inevitably lopped off when school funds become scarce, as they always do. Seldom do our children receive systematic instruction in what their cultures preserve... Cicero warned that not to know what happened before we were bom condemns us always to remain children...It is a mystery to me why our study of history revolves around wars rather that artisitc accomplishments, and around the writings of politicians rather than those of poets and essayists. To be locked out of sights, sounds, rhythm and meter is an numbing and dehumanizing as to lack the ability to read.”
Unfortunately, in spite of the Endowment’s efforts to make its work known, we often become aware of it through such unhappy stories as the one already referred to. The NEA’s bounty We are apt to take for granted and ask little about its genesis.
Anyone who has worked in government or had contacts with it-and who hasn’t?-will
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