This work is about the four artistic subjects theater, music, dance and art, and how teachers can use them as tools in the Swedish education. The aim is to identify the role that the artistic subjects may have in school, their pros and cons, as well as the teachers' attitude towards them. The work is divided into two parts, the theoretical part focuses on research, andpracticepart is based on a quantitative survey with 274 questionnaires, as well as a qualitative survey with three interviews, where all the informants are active teacher at the minimum ages. What emerged from the study is that it doesn’t differ much between research and reality, or in other words the theory and practice, when it comes to the artistic subjects as tools in regular education. The artistic subjects can be time consuming, but if a teacher takes the time they can help both teachers and students in their development. It has also been shown that many of the active teachers do not fully understand what the artistic subjects contains, but when they get concrete example is the vast majority of them in favor of using the artistic subjects as tools in their teaching.