IN this age of technology, the arts is fundamentally essential for society. The arts bring beauty and creativity into society. They are very important because they make society better. The arts bring a sense of enjoyment and pleasure. They allow for the expression of truth and beliefs. They portray various ideas, feelings such as triumph, love, happiness, sorrow and boredom. Each and every message behind the arts shows ideas that are relevant to society. Society can only be complete when there is a good balance between mechanical human capital and artistically inclined human capital.

A healthy Malaysia not only requires a good number of engineers, doctors, IT consultants, but also artists, designers, poets and singers to emerge as a whole, prosperous and healthy society. There­fore, the arts need to be given importance for children’s artistic growth.