The piano, the flute, and the trumpet are all different instruments schools allow you to play. Some children are passionate and enjoy playing instruments, while others do not. Kids shouldn't be forced to play musical instruments at school because some childrens don't have time to practice, others might find it frustrating and stressing, and and instruments aren't cheap, all of which cause both children and parents hardship.
Kids shouldn't be forced to play an instrument at school because kids have other things to do. "Playing an instrument requieres a lot of practice." (Source 3). Many children have responsibilities at home, not including homework and other extra-corricular activities, and to accumulate all these things and put all this work on top of a child's shoulders would be cruel and unfair, especcially if the child doesn't want to play the instrument. "Families want their children to focus more on school work." (Source 3). Some teachers out there exagerrate on the amount of homework they assign to their students, therefore if they add all this homework and so many hours of practice, the child would be exhausted almost everyday.
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"They can work with it day after day. But the might still continue to struggle with it." (Source 3). Some children have patience to learn how to play an instrument, but when the patience runs out you tend to get frustrated and stressed out, sometimes to the point where your health can be in danger. "Soon these kids might begin to dislike music instead of enjoying it." (Source 3). When children don't understand how to work something out or something they try to do won't come out the way they want it to happen they get really frustrated about the thing and they start to hate
My mom required my three siblings and I to take piano lessons for at least two years when we were younger. I enjoyed playing, so when my two years were up I decided to keep going. I played for another four years, but my life started to get busy and I had too many things on my plate, so I quit piano for good. I have somewhat regretted my decision, and noticed a decline in my math skills during the past two years, and other areas in school as well. The absences of math and cognitive skills will dramatically affect a person’s life, because without these skills it makes it very hard to become a successful person in the world’s view. Contrary to what the New York Times article, “Music and Success” by Samuel Mehr stated, listening to music or playing
Ivanov, K. V., & Geake, J. E. (2003). The Mozart effect and primary school children.
Before addressing the need for music instruction in our schools I would like to briefly examine the need for education of any kind. Education is a means of making sure our society has a given set of knowledge. The set of knowledge we perceive ourselves as needing changes based on our surroundings and the issues we are dealing with. In American education's early history we perceived ourselves as needing a set of knowledge that included a common language and common view of history, as well as knowledge of those things with which we would interact every day. In many ways early public education was more a means of social control than an altruistic endeavor. In today's climate we see ourselves as having more diverse needs in our education...
There is no doubt that conformity is essential to the harmony of society. It allows for individuals to work together under a uniform set of rules and norms. In childhood and adolescence, the time during which students go to school, children begin to learn these basic rules of civilization. They socialize with others, learn respect and become well-rounded individuals. This requires students to not only develop their talents but also their weaknesses. This Achilles' heel may be academic, such as math and science or more artistic, like vocal music (Source F). Although students may not be pursuing a future in these areas, learning them is part of becoming a balanced person academically. Only strengthening and focusing on a student’s specific talent could create an image...
Campbell, Don G. The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music. New York: William Morrow, 2000. Print
... middle of paper ... ... Evidently, the WISC-III scale was able to determine that children gain obedience and the ability to learn better from music lessons and that children do not benefit in the long-term if they listen to music; more that the structure of music lessons is able to develop a child’s susceptibility to formal education and learning. Society has been provided with reliable results from former studies which suggest the Mozart Theory has only temporary effects.
Ramped emotions cause distraction and disturbance to cognitive abilities. If emotions affect cognition then what effects emotion? Emotion is affected by an infinite number of factors, one being sound. By this logic, music has an indirect effect on emotion (Gorman). Though short-term, listening to positive or intellectual music can affect the way students academic performance. Positive feelings will reflect in their work (Mattar). By simply having music lessons for a short period once a day, allowing children to find peaceful emotions, students will succeed further than expected
In 2011, schools with music programs had a 90.2 percent graduation rate as opposed to schools without these advantages only having a 72.9 percent graduation rate. Funding issues have generated controversial debates about whether or not music programs should remain in schools. Although critics say that schools’ limited funds should be spent on improving on the quality of education, statistics have argued for the other side. Providing music education in schools prepares students for the workplace, causes higher attendance and graduation rates, and increases test scores.
Teenagers have for long been a constant bother to many parents, for many years. It is during this stage that a large number of individuals engage in rebellious acts and are anxious to try out almost everything they lay their hands on. It is clear from the illustrations that music does have a great effect on teenagers. Parents should therefore combine effort in instilling a sense of responsibility and good morals to their young ones since they are the future leaders of the world.
British Psychological Society (BPS) (2013) Making music may improve young children's behavior. Available at: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=134087&CultureCode=en (Accessed: 17 January 2014).
We are all familiar with the way children interact and play together. Through these interactions, it is clear to see their curiosity, energetic attitude, and friendliness. However there is one important part of their interactions that is overlooked. We often do not think much of kids humming a tune or combining small syllables into a little song, but if we paid close attention, we could see how music is so thoroughly integrated into a child’s life. After reading “Songs in Their Heads: Music and its Meaning in Children’s Lives” by Patricia Shehan Campbell, it became clear to me how children have a concept of music from such a young age, and in a lot of cases, their knowledge of music is not taught to them through school.
Have you ever wanted to just shred up your homework or throw it out the window and have no consequences? Kids are assigned daily homework from the time they start kindergarten at the ripe young age of five. Is it really necessary? Does it even help better learning or even higher test scores? The amount of homework we do wastes time, money, paper, and trees because it’s practically the exact same thing we did in class that day. Homework causes kid’s and teen’s frustration, tiredness, little time for other activities and possibly even a loss of interest in their education. It also keeps everyone up; it has kids and teens staying up until they finish it, the parents trying to help them and the teachers grading it. So, I think that homework is a waste and kids and teens should choose whether they want to do their homework for extra credit and practice or not.
This will help promote my side of the argument so that my side will be the superior argument and will attract more readers. I think kids should have less homework.Three reasons are, that homework is stressful, kids are given more homework than required, and it puts pressure on students causing them to work to hard and and have anxiety and health issues.
Children go to school for seven hours a day, when teachers make them do homework it causes them to get stressed. Furthermore if children understand what they learned at school why do they need to repeat it at home? If children are struggling on a certain subject, teachers should be able to help them directly, not with homework because giving them homework on something they don't know anything about is counterproductive. Instead private tutoring could be something schools provide for failing students and not homework.
Playing a musical instrument as a hobby, gives an immense sense of achievement and true satisfaction, in that one can never feel like playing difficult songs or playing it flawlessly. This boosts the ego and enforces sense of self-achievement, which accomplish more in other aspects of life. Playing instrument as a hobby, require regular practice and dedication. Allotting time to practice daily develops discipline in a person. This can be very advantageous to children who, research shows that everything else fails, but music disciplines children-when they are naturally curious and excited about it.