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Letters: Nicholas Serota answers Toby Young on arts teaching

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7 November 2015

9:00 AM

7 November 2015

9:00 AM

The power of creativity

Sir: A rounded education should encourage creativity as well as maths, English, science and history if Britain is to compete in the modern world. Toby Young’s claim that the arts world is exaggerating the decline of arts in secondary schools therefore deserves to be challenged (Status anxiety, 24 October).

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