What is the Educational Purpose of Music?
Music is The Solution, Not the Problem – Part 1 How often do we hear about music programs being cut back or eliminated from school programs K-12, public and private? They say we need more math and writing skills. So, the outcome is the same over and over again. As parents, policy makers and the schools themselves urge this trend forward, what are they missing? What are we overlooking? To answer this question we need to think about why music is of any importance at all. We hear music every day, so frequently and in so many ways. We hear it on television commercials, movies, radio clips, online, everywhere and anywhere. So many of us listen to and hear music daily, that we all sort of take it for granted. Well, we shouldn’t. Music is not just a CD, a download or thing that some of us do on our spare time just to have fun, to pass the time (which is not to say that there is anything wrong or inappropriate with having fun or recreation with music.) By viewing music as a purely recreational
