🗣 'In dark times when it seems that the arts are seen as something for posh people to look at, then the examples of Rotherham and Bradford and the legacy of Sir Alec Clegg give me real cause for hope.'
Here’s Clegg writing in the final years of the West Riding before its abolition in 1974: “The careful mounting and display of work by a child who has tried hard is a more powerful motive force than the old competition for marks. Minute observation is a training in sensitivity. Readiness to tell others what you have discovered is a way of developing a concern for others.
I remember doing lots of writing and painting in my West Riding junior school but one thing this book is really good at is reminding me how much dance and movement there was in those days; we would gather in the hall and one of the teachers, Mrs Hudson maybe, or Mrs Stansfield, would put some music on the record player or a programme like Music and Movement on the radio and we would move, all of us.
In dark times when it seems that the arts are seen as something for posh people to look at, then the examples of Rotherham and Bradford and the legacy of Sir Alec Clegg give me real cause for hope. Let’s remember that we can all be writers, we can all be artists, we can all be people who move through the world with confidence and grace.
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