It's been a while since I've added a poster or posted some music and arts advocacy quotes, but end-of-year assessments and reflections have me thinking about the benefits of music education as it relates to creative thinking and problem solving. So here's a new poster and some favorite quotes I've collected:
“Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than
problems to solve.”
– Roger Lewin
– Roger Lewin
“When faced
with a problem to solve, students in music and the arts produce more possible solutions,
and their solutions are more creative, according to a nationwide study.”
– N. M.
Weinberger, Arts Education Enhances ‘Real
Life’ Personal Skills,
MuSICA Research Notes, Spring 2000.
MuSICA Research Notes, Spring 2000.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire.”
–
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (I've adopted this one as my mantra.)“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.” – Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
“The arts teach children that problems can have
more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.”
– Elliot
Eisner in The Arts and the Creation of
Mind –
What the Arts Teach and How it Shows
(Absolutlely love this. So true!)
What the Arts Teach and How it Shows
“…the
ability to be creative – a key 21st Century Skill – is native to the arts and
is one of the primary processes learned through arts education... arts promote work habits that cultivate
curiosity, imagination, creativity, and evaluation skills. Students who possess
these skills are better able to tolerate ambiguity, explore new realms of
possibility, express their own thoughts and feelings and understand the
perspectives of others… Students’ capacity to create and express themselves
through the arts is one of the central qualities that make them
human, as well as a basis for success in the 21st century.
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