Kendra S. Horn: “And it seems to me that whether it be the WPA Orchestra in 1935 that I saw or the hundreds of orchestras that have…”

“And it seems to me that whether it be the WPA Orchestra in 1935 that I saw or the hundreds of orchestras that have benefited from grants from the endowment and their outreach into schools they can change people's vision, and we all know about the books. One of the professors at California State University Long Beach wrote a best seller called ``Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain''; Dr. Betty Edwards of our department of art, and another one on ``Drawing on the Artist Within.'' A million copies of the first book, half a million copies of the second. People can learn to be artists not necessarily for the commercial aspects but for their own enjoyment, and I have felt for 30 years at least that if we stress the right side of the brain in the schools, not just the left side of the brain, important though that is with mathematics and all the rest, we would build self-esteem in these children, and we would then transfer them into success in some of the mathematical, history, whatever subjects, languages, all the rest. But we need to help people develop their creative talents, and it has made a difference.”