The idea that learning should take place by continual careful shaping and molding ______ equally to the arts. Watching children at work in a classroom setting, we were ______ by their facility. Children as young as 5 or 6 were painting flowers, fish and animals with the skill and ______ of an adult; calligraphers 9 and 10 years old were producing works that could have been ______ in a museum. In a visit to the homes of two of the young artists, we learned from their parents that they worked on ______ their craft for several hours a day. ( displayed, astonished, applies, displayed , confidence )