1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.

3. Visual Arts Education confirms the world and expression of children, and allows them to express themselves appropriately for their age. (Advocacy of Child-ness)

5. Visual Arts Education confirms each child’s individual sense and expressiveness, assigns to relative values, and allows children to express their own feelings. (Respect of Individuality)

7. Visual Arts Education attempts to teach children to dream and to experience the joy of creation, not knowledge or skills alone. (Joy of Creativity)

　For that reason, visual art education teaches the basics while emphasizing multiple kinds of creative art experiences. (Enthusiasm for Creativity)

8. Visual Arts Education uses the specific “expressive and appreciative” activities that children use to create art to teach them to express themselves in many ways and to live their own lives. (Self-expression)

9. Visual Arts Education teaches integration and harmony in the various relationships between people, as well as in tools, materials, and knowledge. (Self-control and Cooperation) (Hands-on Projects)
10. Visual Arts Education turns Destructive Energy into Constructive Artwork. (Art Therapy)

11. Visual Arts Education aims at child-focused activities, and is opposed to instructors teaching unilaterally using particular teaching methods such as XX. (Opposition to Uniformity)

12. Visual Arts Education is based on a broad specialization in creative arts and consideration for children. Individualized instruction appropriate to each child is the ideal. (Individual Instruction)

13. Visual Arts Education Education develops a lifelong love of creative arts, a sense of beauty, and a rich capacity for self expression. (Self-realization)

15. Visual Arts Education aims to build personalities able to deal proactively with all future issues with creativity and with self-sufficiency. (Contributing to the Society of the Future)
16. Visual Arts Education is inviting students to create a vision of Peace. (Peacemaking !)

16 Development Goals

1. Arts education lets each individual student delineate his/her own dreams.  <Dream Power>

2. Arts education gives students an impression of the value of beauty with an awareness of society and the earth that will last for a lifetime. Students also receive a sense of artistic judgment conscious of those around them as they act.

3. Arts education trains students in sensitivity and practical skills that encourage the development of a creative lifestyle and a harmonious society, as well as a beautiful earth.

4. Arts education is concerned with instruction on the individual level. It integrates knowledge and experience to foster a temperament and ability that is both expressive and capable of superior problem solving.

5. Arts education is concerned with the individual minds of students. It trains in a richly human experience that has self-discipline, cooperativeness with others, concern for others, and emotional depth.

6. Arts education is concerned with the individual lives of students. It provides enjoyable experiences of self-expression, and encourages students to think about living lives true to themselves.

7. Arts education is concerned with the individual profession of students. It improves skills, provides an experience of the delight in being true to oneself, and fosters creative ability in the workplace.

8. Arts education is concerned with technology. It enhances goals and safety, fosters delight in utilizing technology, and creates designs concerned with beauty that connect technology (machinery) with man.

9. Arts education is concerned with society. It suggests and is directly concerned with social creativity that is peaceful and beautiful. Imaginative thinking is at the core of art.