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Benefits of Music Education
By Diana Rogers
How can you make your kids more successful? Teach them music, of course. Invest in their music education. Take them to piano lessons or guitar lessons. Here are some of the reasons why I believe music education is so important. Benefits of Music Education Shown to Include Leadership and Teamwork Skills. Besides being a sure way to become the life of the party, learning to play an instrument can make a child smarter, better adjusted, and better equipped to adopt a position of leadership in a diverse world. Playing an instrument is definitely a self esteem booster. The idea that music education makes children smarter isn’t just my opinion. Music has a mathematical precision, the rhythms, pitches, and motifs in musical composition can all be expressed with numbers and equations. Maybe that is why the 1993 Standardized Achievement Test (SAT) showed above-average scores in both mathematical and verbal portions of the test by high school students who studied music. Music and math definitely go together! Being smart is important, but it’s also critical that children be well adjusted. Children with music education (especially in a school setting with other musicians), develop the key people-skills that are essential to functioning in society, including teamwork, problem solving, and leadership. They gain from hard work of music mastery, learning self-discipline and self-worth through accomplishments. Studies demonstrate that the students most likely to be elected to class office, achieve the highest grades, or receive honors for academic achievement are the students who, you guessed it, study music. There is also an impossible to quantify, yet essential quality that music adds to each of our lives. If, as argued by the Oxford Review of Education as far back as 1996, the richness of music is itself enough justification for the teaching of it, then are music’s other benefits unimportant? I do not believe so. Music education should, and does, have measurable benefits. For one thing, learning to play an instrument is something children will have all their lives to enjoy. What I know is that music education helps children improve academic skills, develop leadership skills, and gain a sense of accomplishment. I also know that support for music education in public schools is always under financial pressure. Where I live, they have chosen to cut music class from a local Elementary school... how sad! So, folks be involved … your children’s music education is as important as math and writing education. It is so very important! But if that doesn’t convince your son or daughter to study music, perhaps the fact that musicians are the life of the party will! With the current decline in support for music and arts education, it is more important than ever for parents to encourage their children to study music.
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Contributor's Note
I wrote about some of the benefits of music because I am passionate about music education. It is so rewarding for me as a piano teacher to meet former students who have gone on to performing with a group or band and are now writing their own music. Music is truly a universal language to be enjoyed.
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LadyD Piano
Piano teacher and kindergarten music.
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