If our education system focuses less on the proficiency of a few talents and more on the general skill of creativity, more children will grow up fulfilled and equipped for our new age of innovation.

T’s 2022 Art issue looks at how art is taught — if it can be taught at all — and what the future holds for aspiring talents.

Each year in September, all schools are encouraged to produce a project, especially by using art. Hundreds of thousands of students have participated in the annual contest over the past 20 years.

The U.S. Department of Education said it plans to cancel more than $6.1 billion of student debt for roughly 315,000 borrowers nationwide who attended The Art Institutes between 2004 and 2017.