http://www.goodclef.com/the-importance-of-a-music-education/ Love it, Learn it, Play it Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:36:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.goodclef.com/the-importance-of-a-music-education/comment-page-1/#comment-4167 Tonette Shilleh Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:03:11 +0000 http://www.goodclef.com/the-importance-of-a-music-education/#comment-4167 Education is undoubtedly a vital field, because every thing in civilization is determined by knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace -- a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work tirelessly at their craft (a lot of them, anyway). But there are some who appear to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a growing up. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could actually feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn't have us memorize dates. That had been the first excellent thing I had been told by a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to be aware of the motivations of history -- the deeply visceral, human areas of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver" fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this publication called, "Calculus Made Easy," by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It's been through many printings all in making an uncomplicated subject simple. What are we able to do to create more tutors who inspire world-changing brilliance? Einstein once testified that imagination is a lot more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide you with the foundation. Imagination can take you to the stars. Don't our kids deserve better? Education is undoubtedly a vital field, because every thing in civilization is determined by knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work tirelessly at their craft (a lot of them, anyway). But there are some who appear to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one of those. She had lived in China as a growing up. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could actually feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. That had been the first excellent thing I had been told by a history teacher. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to be aware of the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human areas of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this publication called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through many printings all in making an uncomplicated subject simple. What are we able to do to create more tutors who inspire world-changing brilliance? Einstein once testified that imagination is a lot more important than knowledge. Knowledge can provide you with the foundation. Imagination can take you to the stars. Don’t our kids deserve better?

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