Why Music Education Belongs in Public Schools

In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org interview, Roger H. Brown, President of Berklee College of Music, gives a passionate defense of music education and the importance of encouraging every possible student to participate in a music-related school activity.

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[moderndaywarriorAZ]

@ryanchris2009 I don't count them all out, just 99.999999999999% of them.

[Krysta52]

@moderndaywarriorAZ some are in college going for music degrees. :)



[lucidlark]

i'm quitting berklee

[moderndaywarriorAZ]

@jamiethebandgeek Of course not all music educators are selfish. Duh. I believe that the non-selfish music educators are greatly outnumbered. If most music educators instilled respect and appreciation for music in their students, bars and restaurants that have live jazz would be full of people as well as symphony concert halls. Yet, our symphony halls are empty as well as any place that has live jazz. Where are all the people in this country who were in band or orchestra? They don't care.

[moderndaywarriorAZ]

@CCCTrumpet Of course, there are many non-musical benefits to playing a musical instrument that can be applied to non-musical careers. I just believe that there should be some musical benefits to playing a musical instrument. I don't believe there are any musical differences between the average adult who played a musical instrument and the adult who didn't. The adult who played an instrument in school is no more likely to listen to recorded or live instrumental music or support music education.

[ryanchris2009]

@moderndaywarriorAZ I was in our marching band in high school, in fact i was the Drum Major my senior year. And being the drum major meant that I was constantly interacting with parents, alumni, and sponsors of the band. I spoke to many sponsors and alumni who either played football when they were in high school or had a child who played football (and had no child in the band) who supported the band. Many of our top supporters never touched an instrument in their life. Don't count them all out.

[MattyTheMole]

Education in general, first starts in the home. If parents are careless about education then their children are going struggle and eventually those childrens struggles becomes a teachers responsibility which in the end fails because the US public school system only knows how to teach one type of student on one type of curriculum. When it comes learning, music programs are a good example. Anybody ever had a teacher say " Look at the person to your left and right, they may not be here tomorrow"?

[jamiethebandgeek]

Not all music educators are selfish. Many put in several extra hours a week, often without pay, to help their students with whatever they need. I'll agree that there probably are some selfish music educators out there, but the same can be said for any educator or extra curricular teacher or ANY profession. You may have had a bad experience with one or a few music teachers, but not all of us are like that.

[CCCTrumpet]

While studying trumpet at The Juilliard School, one of my senior classmates, a trumpeter also, graduated and promptly joined the Navy to fly jets.

How did he transition from Juilliard to landing jets on a boat? Discipline, determination, diligence, nerve and drive. Where did he learn those skills? By studying music.

While in flight school with classmates with engineering degrees, this trumpeter from Juilliard kept up with them by employing his superlative study and concentration skills he d

[moderndaywarriorAZ]

@dspi2772 If we wait for music educators to "figure it out" on their own, it will be too late. They are far too ignorant and narrow-minded. There is no support for music education because music educators are not producing students who support music education. If people who were in band or orchestra in school do not support band and orchestra in school, who will? Do you really think the person who played football in school will support music education?