It enables us to express our noblest thoughts and feelings. Music teaches students about unique aspects of their relationships with other human beings and with the world around them in their own and other cultures. Music opens avenues of success for students who may have problems in other areas of the curriculum and opens approaches to learning that can be applied in other cultures. Studying music increases the satisfaction students derive from music by sharpening sensitivity, raising their level of appreciation, and expanding their musical horizons. Music is one of the most powerful and profound symbol systems that exists.
Music exalts the human spirit.
At perhaps no other time have music and arts education been more important. Apart from their obvious benefits, music and the other arts produce critical thinkers, people who are decision makers. In the information age, our company needs people with the critical thinking skills to analyze data and make judgments. Plato Music is . . . George Santayana So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.