As an art teacher, I have noticed that teaching children drawing, gives them a confidence in art from then on. It is those individuals who don't have sound fundamentals in drawing, that usually quit doing art, particularly in adolescence, when they have a deep, natural desire to create `in-perspective-realistic-art'. Everyone can learn to draw well.

"The emphasis on personality factors has induced some art educators to regard techniques that favor precision of form with suspicion. They have replaced the old-fashioned pencil with materials that foster the spontaneous stroke, the impulsive flash, the raw effect of amorphous colour. Spontaneous expression is certainly desirable, but expression becomes chaotic when it interferes with visual organization. Broad brushes and dripping easel paints compel the child to create a one-sided picture of his state of mind, and the possibility cannot be excluded that the kind of picture he is permitted to make, may, in turn, influence the state of mind he is in.

Unquestionably, modern methods have given outlet to aspects of the child's mind that were hobbled by traditional procedure of having him copy models with a sharpened pencil. But there is equal danger in preventing the child from using his pictorial work for clarifying his observation of reality and for learning to concentrate and to create order. Shapeless emotion is not the desirable end result of education and therefore cannot be used as its means." (23)

Rudolf Arnheim