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Quotes
Humankind owes to the child, the best it has to give.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm into the lives of our children.
Margaret Ramsey MacDonald
All children are artists, the challenge is to keep them so.
Pablo Picasso
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new ‘economy of ideas’
Alan Greenspan
Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study: Imaginative Actuality: Learning in the Arts During Non-school Hours
www.americansforthearts.org/global/print.asp?id=613
Why does theatre for young people matter? Because young people should enjoy the same cultural rights as others. Because aesthetic appreciation cannot start too early. Because even parents whose early exposure to the arts may have been deficient want better for their children. Because at its best this field of work had developed a degree of sophistication which could not be sustained other than as a specialist artistic discipline…..and because what the theatre sector as a whole will learn in coming years about engaging with young people will almost certainly be led by the most accomplished theatre for young people practitioners.
David Fishel, Positive Solutions, Review of Theatre For Young People in Australia 2003.
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