Open education places the arts in the core of the curriculum

Charles E. Silberman has referred to the arts as “the business of education as much as reading, writing, math, or science.” Such a view from a prominent critic of education is indeed heartening, and it is one that is shared by those who believe in the integrated day, the Leicestershire method, informal classrooms, or open education. The arts at the core is the subject of this last, “rounding out” article by Annette R. Guenther, who is a curriculum specialist in language arts and early childhood education in the Bucks County Public Schools, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.—Ed.