There was a time when even the validity of the title might have been questioned. The generation of our grandfathers were doubtful about the purpose of art in education as well as in life. They had reasons to be somewhat terrified of art which meant a certain social fauvism, a certain wildness, which shocked, in spite of Ruskin and Morris, their lndo-Victorian Puritanism. They wanted to be gentlemen, in the respectable shadow of the middle class Englishmen whom they partly knew and partly imagined.
"B1: Purpose of Art in Education." In Seminar on Art Education, edited by Ashfaque Husain, 32-37. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1956.