"1. An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition."( Essay: Arts and Cognition: Findings Hint at Relationships The 2008 Progress Report on Brain Research | via)

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"Thirty-five thousand MFAs a semester, 90 percent of whom never make another work of art."(The Art Critic: David Hickey | via)

- See: Education Arts

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