Children Need Music In Schools
-- April 25, 2011
Hey all you who think that it's ok to focus exclusively on core subjects at the expensive of the whole human being, check this out. My teaching mentor, Wendy Silverberg, is at the helm of the music program described in this video. Bottom line: extensive music education, specifically the Kodaly approach (which is highly sequential, developmental & skills-based) does more for learning reading and math than does spending that time focusing on reading and math.
If it's a newflash for you that the brain, mind, soul, and body are one interconnected system in which one domain benefits from working on another, I just don't know what to say. Nonetheless, here's the video:
