Art education and growth can't be measured

Grades, skills, results ... so much of a child's education can be measured.

But what about confidence, imagination, self-expression and the way they learn to see the world? For a group of children from Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, Sichuan Province, the most important lessons aren’t coming from a textbook.

One finds confidence on stage.

Another pictures fields of flowers, rain and moonlight.

A third reaches for a melody when things go wrong.

I f the parts of growing up that matter most can't be measured, how do we give more children the chance to find them?