Twelve Benefits of Music Education

1. Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning.

2. Musical training helps develop spatial intelligence, the ability to perceive the world accurately, and to form mental pictures of things.

3. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions.

4. Recent studies show that students who study the arts are more successful on standardized test such as the SAT.

5. A study of the arts provides children with an internal glimpse of other cultures and teachers them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures.

6. Students of music learn craftsmanship as they study how details are painstakingly put together and what constitutes good, as opposed to, mediocre work.

7. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work.

8. Music study enhances teamwork skills and discipline.

9. Music provide children with a sense of self-expression.

10. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the workplace. It focuses on "doing", not observing and teaches students how to perform literally anywhere in the world.

11. Music performance teaches your people to conquer fear and to take risks.

12. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable.
adapted from www.childrensmusicworkshop.com