I read recently about a study that was done on art education.  A class of kindergarten students were asked: "Who can sing?", "Who can dance?", "Who can paint?", "Who can tell stories?".  All hands went up for all of the questions.  These young students had no doubt that they could do these things.  They may not be the best singers in the world, but they could sing.  They may not be the most talented dancers, but they could dance.  Ten years later the same students were asked the same questions.  Very few put their hands up and those that did, usually for only one question.  
    So what happened in ten years that made these students believe they had lost so many abilities?  I have to assume it was primarily the education they received.  An education that usually doesn't consider artistic talent important and, in the few cases where it does, that only the best can claim that they have the ability to do something.  If your not good enough to be a professional, the schools discourage you from pursuing these talents that you once enjoyed.  
    We need to get away from the idea that the only purpose of an education is job training.  While there is no denying that education does do that, the primary purpose of education should be to teach our children what they enjoy doing and, most of all, to teach that they are not limited and can be what they want to be.