Three Roads Blog

Which candidate for president said these words recently?

Slate: You talk about the need for arts education in school. Why? And how have you benefited from being a musician?

?????: The discipline that one learns from it is important, but also the stimulation and creativity. If an education system is only left-brain and it does not properly stimulate the right brain, then it’s no small wonder why students are bored to the point of quitting. We lose 6,000 kids a day to drop-out. A third of students in our public schools will drop out of school. It’s not because these kids are dumb. They are bored. What music and the arts do is make sure that those who are right-brain oriented have their lives touched as much as kids who are logic-centered. It’s our creativity that becomes our cultural vehicle and gives us continuity between one generation and the next. Without that continuity, we not only lose some songs or artwork, we lose our capacity to transmit our culture.

Click here to get the answer, or just continue reading and it will become clear….

Mike Huckabee stands no chance of winning my vote, but he has certainly won my respect. He’s a politician who’s both incredibly conservative and, dare I say it, compassionate. He has conservative views, but you can clearly see that they’re the result of genuine thought, not some Rovian calculation. And he doesn’t vilify people with different points of view or seek to impose his conservative creed on the entire population.

Here’s his take on the origins of the earth: totally and unapologetically Christian, but he nonetheless comes across as not at all dogmatic, and he makes it clear that (1) he’s not going to try to rewrite science textbooks, and (2) beliefs about the origins of the earth don’t make someone a good or bad president.

In the unlikely event that Obama wins the democratic nomination and Huckabee wins the republican one, we as a nation may enjoy one of the most civil presidential elections ever.