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Article: Painting a new future.(Perspective)
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- ChildArt
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- July 1, 2003
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The 2003 International ChildArt Festival showcases the important role that children and the arts can play to promote international understanding, children's creativity and imagination, empathy and cooperation. This historic event lays the foundation for a future world leadership that is both creative and cooperative.
The Rationale
In the year 42 A.D. the well-known Roman philosopher Seneca observed that world peace will be secured on a permanent basis only when we start teaching our children to view the whole world as their country: "The whole world is my own native land (Omnis orbs terrarum patria mea est)."
For two thousand years governments ...