Music provides children with a means of self-expression. Now that there is relative security in the basics of existence, the challenge is to make life meaningful and to reach for a higher stage of development. Everyone needs to be in touch at some time in his life with his core, with what he is and what he feels. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the workplace. Employers are also looking for multi-dimensional workers with the sort of flexible and supple intellects that music education helps to create, as described above.
Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and to take risks.
A little anxiety is a good thing, and something that will occur often in life. Dealing with it early and often makes it less of a problem later. Risk-taking is essential if a child is to fully develop his or her potential. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable.