PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sommer, Michele
TI  - The Cream Does Not Always Rise: The Plight of Visual-Spatial Learners and the Power of Art Education
AID  - 10.17763/haer.83.1.tx2140862783728h
DP  - 2013 Apr 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 40--42
VI  - 83
IP  - 1
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/83/1/40.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/83/1/40.full
SO  - herp2013 Apr 01; 83
AB  - My vivid and colorful imagination turned me into a hopeless daydreamer in elementary school. My daydreams were so real that I would get lost in them. Once, in the first grade, I was so completely absorbed in a daydream that I didn't notice all the children had been dismissed. I found myself sitting completely alone at my desk, my teacher glaring at me. I can still recall today how isolating, scary, and humiliating that experience was. I was keenly aware even as a child that the adults in my life regarded my daydreaming as a defect, and so I was deeply ashamed of it. I worked hard to learn to pay attention and follow directions like everyone else. What I wouldn't give today, as an artist, to once again have that extraordinary mental capacity!