Within the national notion of education- creativity sometimes seems to be valued only in terms quantifiable and measurable outcomes. Unless it is useful in its aesthetic it is held with the same regard and affection of a weed trying to push through the black tarmacadam of the playground. Beautiful to look at but ultimately doomed -chanced upon by the overseer tasked with maintaining that space of practice. Enclosed in its own concrete framed flower bed it remains apart from the purely functional
as this flyer from LESOCO illustrates the arts must be commodified and sold to prospective learners in language like this: (the Creative Industries) are the most exciting – and fastest growing – sector of the British economy. If people tell you there aren’t jobs in the Creative Industries – they’re wrong! Did you know that the creative sector makes more than £8m an hour, and employs nearly 1.7m people? And 35.5% of the UK’s creative businesses are based in London.
