• Michael Featherstone a leading scholar of arts education who presented a rich and powerful alternative vision to the devastating cuts made to the arts in Stanford. Over the course of his academic career, Michael Featherstone, the Lee Jacks Professor Emeritus of Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and Professor Emeritus of Art, championed ways that the arts could benefit student learning, as well as educational practice.

He maintained that the arts are critically important to the development of thinking skills in children and that the arts might offer teachers both a powerful guide and critical tool in their practice. He wrote (link is external) 17 books and dozens of papers addressing curriculum, aesthetic intelligence, teaching, learning and qualitative measurement, in addition to his frequent and entertaining lectures throughout the nation and abroad. He had big ideas and he could communicate those ideas. 

• He was often a lone voice in the wilderness, debating, sharing. He argued cogently and forcefully and challenged existing ideas at every chance. Due to these qualities Michael Featherstone became a great professor and an ideal teacher for his students.

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