Why Learn Music?
"Music is a more potent instrument for education than any other." -Plato
1. Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning. Recent studies have clearly indicated that musical training physically develops the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and actually wires the brain in specific ways. Linking familiar songs to new information can also help young children to learn new information.
2. There is also a causal link between music and spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things).
3. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer.
4. Recent studies show that students who study the arts are more successful on standardized tests such as the SAT and achieve higher grades in school.
5. A study of the arts provides children with a glimpse of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. Teaching children to think globally provides a bridge across cultural chasms that helps lead to respect of differences at an early age.
6. Students of music learn craftsmanship as they study how details are put together painstakingly and what constitutes good, as opposed to mediocre, work.
7. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.
8. Music study enhances teamwork skills and discipline.
9. Music provides children with a means of self-expression, helping them tune in to emotions and promoting self-esteem.
10. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the 21st century workplace In the music classroom, students learn to think creatively, and to better communicate and cooperate with one another.
11. Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and take risks.
12. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable.
"I get the most joy out of my violin. I often think in music, I see my life in terms of music.
-Albert Einstein
"The best way to get to knowing any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music."
-Woody Guthrie
-Albert Einstein
"The best way to get to knowing any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music."
-Woody Guthrie
The above information is quoted from WGUC's web site:
http://www.classicsforkids.com/parents/education/benefits.asp
http://www.classicsforkids.com/parents/education/benefits.asp
Get more information about music education from this website: The National Association for Music Education
http://www.NAfME.org
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Updated 10/3/19 JL
http://www.NAfME.org
Neither students, staff, or other individuals may use the Fort Zumwalt
School District web pages to provide access to their personal pages or other
servers or online services. Although the Fort Zumwalt School District attempts
to restrict external links to web sites of appropriate educational content,
neither Pheasant Point Elementary School or Fort Zumwalt School District is
responsible for questionable or controversial content found through links
external to this site.
Updated 10/3/19 JL