Innovation and Suspended Judgment
I agree that education creates some type of conformity where everyone agrees with each other and believes the same things to be true. I don’t think education teaches us that we need to be right all the time, but it limits what we learn and how. The head of my high school history/geography department was from England, and every year, all year, we would learn about the United Kingdom—its history, its geography, everything. We got tired of this and created our own mini-revolution, and it worked. What I mean to explain from this is that education limits our knowledge more than it makes us think one way. In the sense that it restricts what we learn, it shapes what we consider to be “right.”
The nature of the problem
This reading was much more easier to comprehend and understand. I liked the idea that if perfection existed, it wouldn’t need to create art. That the concept of a perfect artist is not realistic. Art is made by regular, everyday people, so the “ideal” artist is also just an ordinary person. Which i think is a very interesting view. Also the suggestion that linking art directly with self-expression is a modern way of thinking, rather than a fundamental truth about art itself. I agree. Since personally, I don’t feel like the way I dress or the art i make is a way of expressing myself at all.