{"id":365,"date":"2026-09-02T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:35:29","slug":"the-individual-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"THE INDIVIDUAL CHILD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annie Besant&#8217;s ideas concerning education provide an interesting starting point. One principle particularly relevant to art education is that each child possesses individual gifts and interests. These may appear early, or they may remain dormant until later in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A child should therefore be exposed to a broad range of experiences rather than being defined too quickly by one apparent ability or weakness. An early interest may disappear, while another ability may emerge with maturity. Education should provide a sufficiently varied palette from which the child can gradually discover what has meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Art is particularly valuable because there is seldom only one correct answer. Two children can be given the same materials and create completely different results. Both may be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This freedom is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The child learns that an individual response has value and that imagination does not always have to conform to a predetermined answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Besant&#8217;s ideas concerning education provide an interesting starting point. One principle particularly relevant to art education is that each child possesses individual gifts and interests. These may appear early, or they may remain dormant until later in development. A child should therefore be exposed to a broad range of experiences rather than being defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannerossstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}