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Visual Art Education: An Entry Way for the Rejected Youth

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There are various youth who are graduates from a pool of educational levels who due to their poor performances in the junior, senior and tertiary institutions are staying at home aimlessly. These youngsters receive the displeasure of parents, friends and other family members because of their ill performances in their examinations. Most of them are rejected in the society, mocked at and even insulted. Some parents even decide not to fend for these youngsters because they are beefed that they have thrown their financial resources in the drain. Should these youths be allowed to waste away in the community? Certainly not! These young ones can be taken through visual art education which is the best education sector for teaching practical skills in art of which they can set up their enterprises on their own.

Art education offers array of training in various fields such as Sculpting, Picture making, Graphic designing, Textile designing, Fashion designing and production, Ceramic production, Pottery production, Basketry and Cane fabrication, Leatherwork productions and a lot more. Training in these facets of art education will pave a way for skill and even talent development of these rejected youth largely as a result of poor academic performances. These learners are taken through various drawing lessons that serve as a foundation for specialization into various aspects of visual art education.

Educational trips and industrial attachments in existing art industries and small-scale enterprises by some successful learners which is part of the art curriculum help learners to experience how they can work with their acquired skills in the job market and practical ways of establishing or setting up enterprise even cottage ones in their own apartments. This great exposure is a source of inspiration for these learners.
One wonderful hallmark of visual art education is its less theoretical component and great emphasis to practical lessons. This caters for the theory-academically dull students who are however serious and hardworking. These students through numerous encouragements are able to pave their own creative paths in various parts of visual art education.

Learners are also required to hold end of term exhibitions where they display their artistic productions in classrooms for the entire student body, parents, friends and visitors to view, appreciate, criticize and even buy some of their products. No wonder majority of them are able to have a pool of customers interested in their line of creativity even before completing the programme. Managers of artistic firms even lease with teachers and hand pick excellent students for employment after their education.

Indeed, visual art education offers great opportunities of which the rejected youth in the community can tap for their skill development and future job survival. Parents who are saddened with the weak performances of their wards in other subject areas and as a result are giving up on them must enroll them in visual art education to help them gain practical, workable skills. The government and other private organizations must provide needed funding and resources to the art departments and institutions in the country for practical demonstrations and exercises. This will in a long way assist serious but needy students to equally partake in the practical lessons that usually demand the purchase of tools and materials.

It is an established fact, with numerous evidences that visual art education is indeed the surest home for the rejected youth in the community.

The Advantages of Music Education Part 1

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When I ask parents, “Why do your children need music education?” I often get a generalized answer like, “My child studies for himself.” Drawing from my own life experience, I can tell you this with absolute confidence: the more clearly and more precisely we know what we want, the quicker and easier we get it.

To understand the advantage of musical education, let’s talk about the music lessons in more detail, beginning with the most simple and popular art – the art of singing.

The voice is given to a person from the moment he is born as the means of a congenital, unconditional, protective reflex. Later, the person learns to use the sounds produced to develop a speaking and then a singing voice. By singing songs or humming tunes, children have an opportunity to accumulate musical impressions and acoustical experience, develop an ear for music, and learn to use the natural musical instrument, the voice. The skillful use of a singing voice is one of the main advantages for the development of child’s musical abilities. Even simply singing for your own pleasure can bring a lot of positive moments into your life. Also, singing activates the functioning in the left (logic) and right (figurative) hemispheres of a brain. As a result, the working capacity of the child increases. Singing also promotes attention and improves the mood.

How can singing positively influence children’s health? Singing actively develops and strengthens the respiratory system, which is especially important at the early age. It also naturally trains the muscles of the throat and vocal chords. Because the respiratory system is closely connected with the cardiovascular system, the child, being engaged in respiratory gymnastics during singing, thereby strengthens his health. Singing also promotes the development of musical abilities such as hearing, memory, sense of rhythm, and time/tempo.

Many of you have probably heard that singing can cure such speech impediments such as stuttering. I can confirm this fact with confidence – by using my own techniques, I helped one of my daughters eliminate this problem within two years. The fact is that while singing, words are sounded lingeringly, which helps the child pronounce separate sounds and syllables more precisely. In other words, singing is the cure to many language and speech difficulties, such as stuttering! Well-chosen drills combined with a child’s desire to get rid of an unpleasant impediment are the keystone to success.

In addition, proper speech characterizes correct thinking. Thus, after eliminating a stutter, your child’s susceptibility to general studying and learning at public school will improve due to the resultant emotional liberation.

Children who sing regularly are also very focused. They easily learn foreign languages, they are more diligent in comparison to other children, and they are able to study and absorb any training much easier.

Singing in vocal ensemble or choir is also beneficial. This way, children get to develop additional qualities as musicians. For example, harmonic hearing is a skill in which a person hears and distinguishes a number of tones that sound simultaneously, as well as the sense of ensemble. (Ensemble, from the French, means “together.”) By becoming part of a choir or vocal ensemble, the child starts to understand and feel his own importance and power. Besides, who would scoff at the ability to have a beautiful and well-trained voice? Let’s admit it: it would be very pleasant to talk with such a person – and hopefully, hear him sing!

Golf Course Types by Ownership

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One of the things that a newcomer to the World of golf would probably like to know is what the difference is between different types of golf course. This question is more complicated than you may first imagine as there are really three different ways to express what category a particular golf course fits into.

The first is by setting and categories a course by whether it is set in heathland, woodland or by the ocean etc. The second type is by length, where the course is categorized essentially by the length of time it takes to play a round, so these types will be pitch & putt, full length or executive, so called because executives may not have time to play a round on a full length course of 18 holes. Most executive courses are only 9 holes.

In this article though we are going to look at how golf courses can be categorized by ownership. The above two types of categorization allow you to know what to expect when you turn up to play. However, this third type of categorization determines whether or not you will be allowed access to the course at all.

The following is not an exhaustive list of course types but these are the most popular types of course that you might come across.

Private Golf Courses are courses which are owned by a golf club and they only allow play by members of the club. If you aren’t a member of the club then you can’t play, unless of course you are lucky enough to be invited to play by someone who is already a member.

Public Golf Courses can be courses owned by private organizations or individuals or by other organizations such as local businesses. The key here is that the owner charges a fee for playing. Essentially this means that the course is open to be played by anyone who can afford to pay the fee.

Courses also exist which are essentially a combination of the above two. Club members can play at any time. The public are allowed to play but usually only on specific days of the week, or times of day.

Municipal golf course are owned by the local government. They operate like public golf courses but the money paid for the green fees goes to the them as opposed to a private individual or company.

Some residential areas have their own golf course which is designed to be played by the local residents only. They tend to be run by the community itself and as such are not open to the public.

Finally there is the resort golf course. Resort golf courses are owned and operated by a holiday resort or a hotel chain for the pleasure of their guests. Play may not be restricted to resort guests however, and so you may find some resort courses are open to the public in return for a fee.