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Being Smart vs. Being Wise

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“One of the things everyone should know is this: as you grow smarter, you do not always grow wiser. Music teaches you wisdom skills - group effort, getting along, etc. that math, science, etc. cannot teach you. These are skills that are necessary for success in college and the workforce.”-Michael H., Colorado

A Defining Element of Culture

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Music is one of the defining elements in any culture. It s unimaginable for a society to even consider depriving children of the right to participate in a venue that so easily lends itself to critical-thinking, self-expression, formal analysis, and imagination--all at once. “I teach aspiring music teachers every day. There is no career that I can think of that can give me any greater joy than to see young music teachers doing what they love - sharing their lives in music with other human beings through one on one and classroom interactions.”-Stephen E., North Carolina

Encourage Your Children Through Arts

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

"Explore your child's dream to sing, to dance, to draw, to act--and encourage them to become the best they can be through the arts."

Music Helped My Daughter Learn to Speak

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Music had a huge impact in my speech-delayed daughter's learning to talk. It enhances learning in so many ways.”-Julia M., Maryland

Music Lets Each Child Have a Voice

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Let each child's voice and instrument be heard and let them sing and play for a lifetime.”-Judy A., Kansas

Music Teaching as a Unique Career

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Music teaching is the strangest of professions. There are few careers on the planet that require you to work so hard toward your own redundancy, or leave you feeling so proud and fulfilled when that redundancy is achieved.”

To Be Human is to Be Creative

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“To be human is to be creative. You don’t have to go outside yourself to find creativity—You already have it. It lives in your heart and mind in every moment of every day.”

Mistakes Make Experience

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later, a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

Participation in Music Keeps School Relevant for Urban Youth

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“As an instrumental music teacher in an urban community, I have personally witnessed the positive effects music education has on students who are at risk. Many students need to participate in making music in order for school to remain relevant and interesting for them. Through music they are able to develop the skills necessary to succeed in the other academic subjects.”-Jay H., New York

Music and Reading

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Correlations exist between music training and both reading acquisition and sequence learning.  One of the central predictors of early literacy, phonological awareness, is correlated with both music training and the development of a specific brain pathway.”

Music and Memory

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Specific links exist between high levels of music training and the ability to manipulate information in both working and long-term memory; these links extend beyond the domain of music training.”

Arts and Genes

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Genetic studies have begun to yield candidate genes that may help explain individual differences in interest in the arts.”

Woodrow Wilson on Music

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.” -Woodrow Wilson, quoted by Robert R., Rhode Island, on the Petition for Equal Access to Music Education

Arts and Cognition

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition.”

Add Music, Increase Literacy

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Want to increase literacy? One of the best ways to increase the nation's literacy is by adding music to every curriculum. Reading music helps with fluency and organization, as well as listening, viewing, and communication skills.-Richard S., Indiana

No Music Is Like No Food for Children’s Development

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Music has been a positive influence on so many students. To deny them the opportunity is like denying them ‘food’ for their development both intellectually and emotionally!”-Sally C., Ohio

Music at a Small Country School Changed My Life

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“It is because of a public school music program that I have traveled and performed with a cello for the last 40 years. I have been to amazing places and met amazing people. I have experienced things I would never have known without that opportunity, and my life has been enriched beyond explanation because of a music program in a small country school.”-Barbara G., North Carolina

There's Music for Every Season, Mood

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Music has touched my life in so many ways. It was healing when I needed it to be. Party music when I was having a great time. Listening music when I was in a quiet mood. Educationally, I've been listening, participating and experiencing the many genres, styles and moods for many years.”-Lowell R., Michigan

School Music is an Investment in the Future

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Our public education system is increasingly turning out students armed with little more than memorized facts. Becoming lost is the ability for our children to think creatively and put those facts to use in order to solve problems and come up with inventive new solutions to the problems we face in today's society. Re-emphasizing the arts and disciplines like music will only serve to strengthen our education system and the future of our nation and world.”-Brian B., Rhode Island

Music Works Better than Medicine

Added: Jun 24, 2010 - View

“Music helps with testing by soothing ruffled nerves. It also calms students during morning work and keeps them quiet. Music works better than a medicine when trying to cheer up a person or calm them down. I love music.”-Cindy B., Kentucky