- Why Music? Miscellaneous
Quotes
-
- "While most of us will never sing like
Aretha Franklin or
- Celine Dion, an education in the arts
can help all of us
- reach our individual dreams. Research
now shows that
- music education not only lifts our
children's hearts, but
- also dramatically increases their
abstract reasoning, spatial
- skills and their scores on math and
verbal exams. At a
- time when too many arts education
programs are the first
- to be cut and the last to be added, all
of us must send a
- clear message. When it comes to igniting
our children's
ability to learn and imagine, the arts must be just as central
to our children's education as the three R's."
- -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady
of the United States
- of America
-
-
- "I have a premonition that one day soon
we will wake up,
- like Woody Allen's character in the film
Sleeper, to the
- realization that stripping instrumental
music from our
- elementary schools was a true blunder of
twentieth century
- American education."
- -- James S. Catterall, professor of
education and co-director
- of Imagination Project at
UCLA
-
-
- "For some strange reason, when it comes
to music and the
- arts, our world view has led us to
believe they are easily
- expendable. Well, I believe that a
nation that allows music
- to be expendable is in danger of
becoming expendable itself."
- -- Richard Dreyfuss, actor and star
of Mr. Holland's Opus,
- 38th Annual Grammy
Awards
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