As soon as I discovered I could learn through my hands, I realized I wasn’t stupid.

Last week, in talking with a gifted and successful artist and art professor, the importance of experiential education was beautifully described:

“I wasn’t going to finish college, but I took an art class that focused on creating instead of textbooks. As soon as I discovered I could learn through my hands, I realized I wasn’t stupid. I started to love learning again.”

There are many perspectives about how dyslexia affects art and creativity. The story from NPR in January 2017 offers why we succeed in art because of dyslexia, rather than despite it.