I believe this fundamental examination of education is happening simultaneously in school board rooms, legislative assemblies, ballot boxes, churches, lunchrooms, and family rooms. It is happening in multiple media outlets, conversations among teachers, parents and employers. Education is the one business that is everyone's business. There have been and continue to be conversations among our cadre about finding and nurturing the next great musician, painter, or writer in each neighborhood classroom. This seems to follow the patronage model of an earlier age.
Music enriches our lives.
Music gives us a powerful way of interpreting our worlds. Music, just like any other subject if it is explored deeply enough, can offer the means of delving into any number of inquiries about mathematics, language, physics, history, and art. I view music as a means of teaching and learning about life, as a vehicle for making our lives more challenging, as a vehicle for making our lives fuller. Somehow, it seems the mental models are 'all or nothing' liberal arts, classic sciences, computational mathematics. If these subjects are the basis for understanding the human heart and mind, history and laws of the world in which we live, they are necessary curriculum for all students.