Bellingham Music Centre - Catford, London Borough of Lewisham

Here is a video of one of the many piano students we have taught over 15 years.

Falmouth Piano Lessons A ten year old student plays a grade three Abrsm piano piece

Quote from Tommy Igoe:-
The arts are under attack in every possible educational environment. While anything doing with STEM, including manual coding is getting funded and pushed while the arts are getting decimated.

Not to mention AI is going to make manual coding obsolete soon enough. all you gonna need to be able to do is tell AI what you want to code and it will code it all for you and debug it. Faster than any human being ever could.

While manipulating a musical instrument for self satisfaction of the artistic heart will never be replaced.

Every study everywhere forever has always given us this data. Children who play musical instrument score better and do better on every test imaginable. Their brains are organized at a higher level and what they learn playing an instrument makes everything they do academically stronger. We’ve seen the data forever on this.

But It won’t matter, because the adults of today who run our education were the exact same anti art bollards of 30 years ago who weren’t in band then and they don’t advocate for band now. these are the people making decisions where the money goes.

they don’t understand and they never will because if they did, we wouldn’t be where we are right now with band programs on life-support more and more every single year.

*** this post has gone viral (unfortunately) and some people do not understand that I expect you to be able to do some of your own research but since some of you can’t just say into your phone “show me the MIT study on how music affects a child’s brain“ I’ll have to do the work for you. here is a link to an article that has even more associated links within it.

you’re welcome.

https://awarenessact.com/if-you-want-smarter-kids-teach-them-music-not-coding-according-to-mit/?fbclid=IwAR3C3Pv6giFV9zpgZOyPJYjk4HBVCGb0MTj_dKhQ078C_2XooetcY7QoJwM

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