Art education is feared and discouraged in many place. To be an artist is to be an explorer of human experience and the human condition. Vaclav Havel, once a tenant of his state's prisons, and later his countries leader, is an example of how dangerous art can be for some governments. The best art needs complete freedom to explore and consider every possibility. Everything has to be open to consideration.
Every feeling has to be touchable and open to exposure.
Or consider the case of Salmon Rushdie, and his book Satanic Verses, and the government of Iran has offered several millions dollars to the person who kills him. The citizenry there is mostly walking on tip- toes to avoid doing anything that doesn't fit in. An important journalist in Egypt was recently murdered for his openness to new ideas. And so it is, mainly to a lesser degree, in much of the world. In no other country does the individual or collaborative effort in the arts have such a free reign as here.