Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Why Kindermusik?
WHY KINDERMUSIK? “Perhaps we’ve all misunderstood the reason we learn music, and all the arts in the first place.... for hundreds of years, it has been known that teaching the arts, along with history and math and biology, helps to create the well-rounded mind that western civilization and America have been grounded on.” -actor Richard Dreyfuss
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Exercising the Brain
Exercising the Brain
“Evidence suggests that long-term musical involvement reaps cognitive rewards–in language skills, reasoning and creativity–and boosts social adjustment.
Music exercises the brain. Playing an instrument, for instance, involves vision, hearing, touch, motor planning, emotion, symbol interpretation–all of which activate different brain systems.”
According to Norman M. Weinberger, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and behavior at the University of California at Irvine, musical experiences help to shape the brain, and “[depriving] children of [music's] intellectual, personal and social benefits . . . by failing to foster musicality, our society is wasting its potential.”
It’s an oldie goldie, but you can read the rest of the original interview from September 2000.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Why Kindermusik?
WHY KINDERMUSIK? “An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.” -First Lady Michelle Obama
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Why Kindermusik?
WHY KINDERMUSIK? "The schools that produced the highest academic achievement in the United States today are spending 20% to 30% of the day on the arts, with special emphasis on music." International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IAEEA) Test, 1988
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