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The present-day state of arts education in Australia is a threat to our culture, creativity and ultimately to our future leadership endeavours. This was the fiery cry from a panel of pre-eminent Australian arts leaders.
Victoria Opera music director Richard Gill, colleague of the advisory panel for the national curriculum – arts education, criticised the lack of a commonsense passage to arts learning.
Concerned about the convoluted jargon used at the last advisory meeting, Mr Gill said that the par panel's bureaucratic pursuits had undermined the intellectual drive needed for a healthy arts scene.
Mr Gill said that his concerns had calculated him to ask the panel at the last meeting, when the discussion would focus on "the concept of goodness and truth and beauty?”
“It was as if I had vomited all over the index – they’re so old-fashioned, those concepts – I’m a very unpopular member of that panel because I keep on throwing
