First, we need the arts to express feeling workds cannot convey.
Second, we need the arts to stir creativity and enrich a student's way of knowing.
Third, we need the arts to integrate fragments of academic life.
Fourth, we need the arts to empower the disabled and give hope to the disenchanted.
Above all, we need the arts to create community and to build connections across generations.
          ~Dr. Ernest Boyer, the late president of the 
          Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching