“I would like to propose that an equally good reason [to include arts in education] is that they provide opportunities for failure to children who succeed in other areas. Indeed, the arts provide opportunities for failure to all kinds of children.”

 

Even though we may cognitively agree that learning from our mistakes is a good thing in the end, no one likes making mistakes, let alone learning from them. However, Davis says that failure is something not to be avoided, but rather embraced. Although her main intention is to advocate for arts education in a child’s core curriculum, perhaps there is something more to be gleaned from her words. You can almost hear echoes of gospel truth in what she writes. The gospel says that embracing our failures is the beginning of not being a failure.