Why Music Education Belongs in Public Schools

[@onlyallegra]

Wow... Considering the fact that I was a music education student, I truly appreciate this! Especially liked the argument he makes at 2:30. Everyone needs to see this! I have to graduate early, so I had to drop the education minor. I plan to substitute teach until I have the opportunity to go back for my education certification. And, until I am a certified music teacher, I will squeeze some music into anything that I teach if I can help it!

[@RashadAmand]

Amen! I agree with that 100 %! I just got done doing a paper advocating for Music Education in American School, and this man proves the point of my paper. Without the arts, especially music, many people have no hope for learning! Support your 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.

[@jimmyseterna651playlistmus8]

Thank you, It's very true

[@MusicBooksForKids]

Very nice channel. Thank you for sharing your videos!

[@SpeakingMusiconline]

Yes, pathway to learning!

[@moderndaywarriorAZ]

I recently watched a youtube video in which the Alexis I Dupont H.S. Band Director Paul Parets said "There are several hundred trophies here on the walls. The nice thing is every one of them is a first place." This is a great example of what is wrong with music education and why it is dying. Music "educators" are so obsessed with winning that they are not teaching appreciation for music to their students. When those students become adults, they do not support music education and programs die.

[@benzoblack]

Right on so many levels...

[@ArthlecMann]

For me the US was always about making a living in ART. So why stop music and other art education in school?? I love this clip it explains everything I need to say to a non musician. How important is our art form.

[@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.

[@ditroiamusic]

I don't think sports are in any where near as much jeopardy as music education! At least not in my area! But he brings up some great points.

[@moderndaywarrior5775]

I personally own the complete collection of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts on DVD. These DVDs are filled with enormous amounts of information designed to teach children to understand and appreciate instrumental music. I have offered to loan these DVDs to several music educators and have suggested that they be shown to their students. The angry responses I get are, " How will that help my students perform better?" or "How will that help my students get better scores at music festivals?" Music education is suffering because there are very, very few adults who support and care about music education, even though there are thousands and thousands of adults in this country who participated in music education. Music educators are not even trying to teach their students to appreciate legitimate music and when those students become adults, they do not support music education in any way.

[@pogotard]

You are so correct. How arcane that you would have some Bernstein and Young People's Concerts? There is no better to teach children gasp - music. This guy is in the grey area between classical and jazz and has diverted himself into the gray area of jazz and oblivion. Sousa anyone? Beethoven?

[@moderndaywarrior5775]

You need to work on your English. I can't even understand your comment. Leonard Bernstein was the greatest music educator that ever lived. Nobody in history ever wanted people to understand and appreciate instrumental music more than he did.

[@BG-ig6fd]

Agree wholeheartedly. And then there is the brain development aspect.....how students who learn a musical instrument do better in all academic areas in school. So much scientific research has been done now on the brain and music learning. There is really no excuse anymore for school boards to regard music as a secondary subject that can be the first cut.

[@jayfluellen1287]

Fantastic!! I could not have said it better myself.

[@meeshter24]

@navychick88 I live really close to Ontario. I never heard this. Wow, that does sounds strange

[@xavier1964]

play at 1.25 speed

[@princessofjesus93]

awsome!!!

[@gavinpeppler9820]

I agree with him

[@nopeify461]

@FireGuyX Judging by your grammar and conventions, you could have used some Music Ed to enrich your academic experience. You can say whatever you like, but the fact of the matter is that there is proof, scientific studies, that show that music education is beneficial to a child's development. You want to tell everyone else that they are being ignorant, but you are the only one ignoring the facts when they are so clearly presented to you.

[@jimmyseterna651playlistmus8]

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[@moderndaywarriorAZ]

When I look at the high school marching band activity today, I see a sea of egomaniac band directors that teach kids to march drill and make a bunch of formations that make no sense and nobody understands and teach kids to play music that nobody understands and nobody enjoys listening to in order to benefit the band directors' ego and reputation. Music education today exists for the benefit of the music educator.

[@monicatervoort4269]

so true ♥ Thank God For The ARTS ♥

[@JazzFan76]

This is a load of crap because I took music in public school and it didn't help me in any other way only to learn my instrument. I never really understood much of anything else. I guess that's why I was in special education classes. I played the trumpet from 1989 up to 1992 and I was still horrible at everything else. It didn't make me better at math or anything else like that. The reason why I think they should get rid of music in schools is because the instruments cost a whole lot of money and from my experience, a lot of the kids that were in my class were goofing off, they didn't take it seriously and they would break the instruments whether it was on purpose or by accident. Now these instruments not only are expensive themselves but they're very expensive to get fixed. now there are a lot of kids who do want to learn a musical instrument and they do take it seriously but there are also a lot of kids who don't and they break the instruments and like other teachers, my music teachers were underpaid and overstressed because most of the time, these kids didn't want to listen. They just wanted to goof off .

[@moderndaywarrior5775]

I have been a professional musician for over 30 years. I have performed music in public, in the real world, outside of the artificial, pretend, make-believe, government-funded fantasy world of music education, thousands of times. It has been a miserable experience watching instrumental music disappear from our country over the last 30 years. It is fascinating how music educators continue along in blissful ignorance while there is a musical holocaust taking place in the real world, outside of their government-funded fantasy world. Music educators are uninterested in and/or unaware of the fact that their former students are contributing to this musical holocaust as much as any group of people. Music educators don't care that their former students are just as likely as anyone to think that instrumental music is stupid and boring and that the people who have dedicated their lives to composing, performing, and teaching instrumental music are a bunch of idiots. Music educators apparently think that music education will exist indefinitely in a country that thinks instrumental music is stupid and boring and a waste of time, money, and resources. Instrumental music is dead in this country, instrumental music education is dying, and music educators are doing nothing to stop it.

[@majormana1]

you have decent point but failed in final point yes for some its music others athlrtjc but you or he cause idk if guy in video posted it forgot art. all three of those are something that can keep kid from dropping out

[@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]

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

[@moderndaywarriorAZ]

This video is great. But, unfortunately music education is in trouble because music educators do not instill any respect or appreciation for music in their students. Most music educators are only concerned with using their students for things like impressing parents, impressing their peers, winning competitions, and getting high scores and ratings at music festivals. Music educators are killing music education with their selfishness.

[@navychick88]

I'm writing a paper about Elementary Music curriculum's in Canada, and found out that Ontario is the ONLY place in NORTH AMERICA where an educator teaching music DOES NOT have to be specifically trained in music! How pathetic is that!?

[@saxaphoneboy92]

@FireGuyX You make music education sound so negative. There is no problem with schools not having music education. The problem is that students have a difficulty learning in an environment without music. Music is so influential in our world and is a cause of many successes in our world. I'm not saying that music education is mandatory, I am saying that studies have shown that music education not only helps but prevents many problems that students have in learning subjects.

[@moderndaywarriorAZ]

Unfortunately music education is in trouble because music educators do not instill any respect or appreciation for music in their students. Most music educators are only concerned with using their students for things like impressing parents, impressing their peers, winning competitions, and getting high scores and ratings at music festivals. Music educators are killing music education with their selfishness. Look up Music Education Extinction on youtube.

[@tubadawg1]

I think you mean "buy" perhaps with a little more music study that English stuff would have stuck!!

[@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?

[@lucidlark]

i'm quitting berklee

[@SoftWaytoMozart]

Of cause, it is important to learn and teach music, but current approaches are waste. They fail most of students.

[@markus6770]

i’m only here for guitar

[@51OAKLANDorg]

Beautifully articulated - crystalizes the arguments succinctly and eloquently. Support Art & Music education in American public schools. Visit 51oakland to learn how you can help do this in Oakland, CA.

[@SrgAwesomeness]

At no point in my life have I enjoyed playing music. I enjoy when other do lol

[@SBColton]

Peyton Manning?

[@moderndaywarrior5775]

Music education is dying because the music education system does not produce adults that support music education. Music educators do not care if their former students appreciate music or support music education. They only care how well their current students perform, how many plaques and trophies their current students win, and how much admiration their current students earn the music educator. Music educators are killing music education with their selfishness.

[@moderndaywarrior5775]

The only people who really care about music education are music educators. There are thousands and thousands of adults in this country who participated in school music ensembles and few, if any, of them care if music education lives or dies. This is why music education is dying. Short-sighted and self-serving music educators don't want to waste precious rehearsal time teaching their students the significance of music education. Music educators don't receive plaques or trophies for teaching their students the importance of music education. Music "educators" also don't want to waste time teaching their students the significance of the people who have dedicated their lives to composing, performing, and teaching the music performed in school music ensembles, or even the significance of the music itself. This is why music education is dying.

[@threesixty2408]

I think it's pointless. How many will go on to be professional musician? very little and I'm an pro musician myself.

[@threesixty2408]

marching band playing music nobody likes is pointless

[@Cowpwnz]

Fail.