Every school should have unlimited resources to educate our children, but the fact remains many do not. These are the questions asked at school board meetings. The answers can be found in children who have not had the experience of studying music in school. They are unaware of the possibilities found in music. Music is a valuable source for mental, social, and emotional learning, and should remain in the nations schools.
Music stimulates the mind.
Research indicates that listening to classical music, that of Mozart, Bach, or Beethoven, enhances a child's mental capacity for learning. This issue explains a child's learning process, mapping the developmental phases that occur in the first few years. Music is credited as being a foundation upon which skills will flourish. The study of music theory is challenging and very mathematical. A child learning music theory is given a new way to conceptualize numbers and their spatial relationships and becomes music literate for life.