A wave of creativity is better than a crime wave

I WOULD suggest half an hour be added to our national school day as we have one of the shortest school days in Europe.

Crime in Limerick and Dublin is widespread and even if we had a million gardaí on the beat it wouldn’t get rid of it.

I suggest far more art with the simple crayons or markers from the pound shops. Having worked with seven-year-olds in a national school 30 years ago, I used to see their lovely work with markers.

I would turn aside and say to myself “they could draw the Book of Kells”.

The most cogent quotation I ever saw for child art is from a Kansas department of education art guidebook.

It reads: “The outstanding function of a programme of art for all young people must be to help them to arrive at a well-balanced, creative, intellectual, physical, moral, spiritual, emotional and social maturity”.

DB O Drisceóil

Sráid Meanach

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