Who Will Teach Bravery? There’s not much controversy about teaching reading or spelling or math. It’s assumed that we ought to have systems in place to establish cultural norms and behavior and a passing knowledge of current events. But who is worried about creating a new generation of brave artists? Brave because artists take leaps, brave because artists fail—the willingness to fail and then do it again is the cost of doing art, and for some, it becomes part of the reason to do art. Are we avoiding this vital work because it’s difficult to teach or, more likely, because the industrialists who
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