The transmission of our culture of one of the aims of education. Today, it is very natural that Korea emphasizes the education with its own unique national characteristics and its national pride. Especially, this is the age in which al countries are living in a smaller world and become similar to one another in their way of living, their way of behaviour and their way of thinking clue to the development of transportation and communication systems. In this global situation, it is far more important and significant that we should stress and educate our own valuable traditional culture for our students, From this viewpoint, our art education can not be an exception, either. Looking baci our past educational reality, we can net help being sorry that our consciousness of national culture was once forgotten by the unilateral education of Japanese imperialism and after 8.15 Liberation, our traditional culture and art with deep national emotion have been baked down on by accepting the new educational trend and the foreign culture without any critical consciousness. Recently, the criticism for our educational function has been strengthened and our national sense of pride has been greatly increased. As a result. of that the textbook of art education has included more interest in our traditional art. It is a very desirable trend for, if we can not transfer the splendid(sublime) spirit of our ancestors in our tradional culture to our students, the tragedy of extinction of our national spirit arid wisdom Will appear. Of course, our tradional art has been formed through long years of national way of living and so it can not be applied to our present living situations word by word. However, without the emotiora a familiarity to our traditional art, it is meaningless that we restore our tradition in this modern culture and try to recreate a new national culture, And so we should admit the fallacy our traditional culture, and we should succeed in and develop the Korean t