They aren't going to help my child put food on the table someday.
Art is sissy.
The cant is all too familiar despite the best thinking of international educators, mountains of proof to the contrary compiled during the last few decades, the record of thousands of years of history and national and state legislation. For any child being educated today, such thinking by parents is tantamount to rendering a death sentence on the child's future. Ironically, such an attitude im-plies that adults know more about what will guarantee their children's future success than the leaders of the very businesses that will employ them. Siemens, General Electric, State Farm, IBM, Lincoln Life, Bell South, Cadillac, Boeing, Toshiba, McGraw-Hill and Lincoln all say skills learned from an education in the arts are precisely the ones that properly equip the worker of the future. These international business giants believe so strongly that tomorrow's successful worker only can be one whose academic education has proceeded hand in hand with education in the arts that about a year ago they sponsored a 36-page supplement in Business Week.