How to Prove the Necessity & Importance of Arts and Education in a Research Paper

Catholic churches in England were "simplified" by removing extra decorations.

The necessity and importance of arts and education faced challenges in some historical contexts. Chinese Cultural revolution of 1960's-70's devastated multiple works of the "bourgeois" art. Masterpieces of the "immoral art" including Sandro Botticelli's paintings were burnt during the rule of Savonarola in Florence in 1490's. Catholic churches in England were "simplified" by the Protestants by removing stained-glass windows. Approach to the necessity of the education was also variable for different ethnic, social and gender groups. For example, the Talmudic sages believed that a woman did not need to study because she was perfect and clever by her nature. Our approach is different.

Instructions

Necessity and Importance of Arts

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   Greek philosopher Plato believed that the immortality can be reached through "children".

   Indicate in your research paper the necessity and importance of art as a source of psychological comfort for artists. According to Plato, any human being intends to be immortal. This immortality can be reached through one's "children': really borne children, completed projects or created things. Works of art can treated as such "children" promising immortality to their creator.

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   The art has therapeutic significance.

   Mention in your research paper that the arts have therapeutic or compensating significance. According to Sigmund Freud, non-used sexual potential is often transformed into creativity. Thus, the arts are necessary for maintaining mental health.

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   Works of art are informative.

   Demonstrate in your research paper that objects of arts are penetrated by the spirit of a special epoch and style, and, thus, they are informative. Show that the art is a means of non-verbal communication, and hence, it is a means of information enrichment of the humankind.

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   Gorgeous works of art impress contemporaries and future generations.

   Stress the importance of the arts as a functional instrument in human civilization. From the beginning the arts were functional: ancient hunters drew bisons on the caves' walls to use their images in ritual hunting and to train hunting skills. Ancient rulers built gorgeous Mausoleums for themselves to impress their people and rivals. Modern politicians use art, for instance, cinema, as a means of propaganda.

Necessity and Importance of Education

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   Education gives clues to adaptation to the external world.

   Explain in your research paper that the main goal of any education is to provide strategies of adaptation to the external world.

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   Animals can rely on their instincts learning the surrounding environment.

   Compare human society and animal communities. Stress, that in contrast with animals, people have to live in a social reality which is constructed and artificial. In comparison to animals which can rely on their instincts helping them to live in a natural environment, a person must learn the rules of social life through education.

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   A person gets to know the social reality through education.

   State in your paper that education not only provides a person with a profession but rather makes a person open-minded, flexible and adaptable to any unpredictable challenges of life.

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   Alumni feel their belonging to a specific social group.

   Indicate in your paper that education influences social groups' formation drastically: it creates professional groups with their unique subcultures. It functions as a factor of social solidarity, as well: alumni from a university or a college create long-termed communities and support each other during all their lives.

References

• http://www.johndeweyphilosophy.com/books/democracy_and_education/Education_as_a_Necessity_of_Life.html