6. Fredrich Froebel
1782-1852
Play is the highest
expression of human
development in
childhood for it
alone is the free
expression of what is
in a child's soul.
17. Ella Victoria Dobbs
1866-1952
The Creative Arts
in Democratic Living
(unpublished manuscript)
“wholesome balance
between free expression
and technical instruction
and between freedom and
order” (58)
18. The Social Efficiency Movement
David Snedden, 1916
Commissioner of Education
Massachusetts
“teach authoritative good taste and
train those talented in visual arts”.
No need for industrial art-related skills
24. The Owatonna Project 1933-38
Owatonna, Minnesota
“The project was built on the idea that in order for the
arts to change a community, a sense of well-being had
to be felt in the home as well as in schools.”
25. Edwin Ziegfeld
Owatonna Art Project
“art becomes most significant and most meaningful when it
touches those areas in which people carry on the greater part of
their daily activities—in other words, when it is intimately
connected with everyday experience.”
26. People’ Art Center MOMA
Arts are a humanizing
force and their major
function is to vitalize
living.
Victor D’Amico
1905-1987
