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Musical education in Colombia

Hi everyone. / Could I begin/ by asking you to raise your hands/ if you think that music is an integral

discipline /as important as physics/ or chemistry /in the childrens school education?

Well. /According with your raising of hands,/ I would recommend you /to listen this presentation/

in order to know /why music is as important as other subjects,/ understanding the truth behind the

music.

For starters/, I will tell you about my relationship with music./ I have three brothers/ and since we

were eight years old /we belonged to Battuta/, a foundation were we learned to read music,/ play

instruments,/ play with an orchestra, /etc /. In that moment /we had to invest so much time and

effort /in school and Batuta,/ and this musical practice gave us the discipline,/ the order and other

qualities/ to have an excellent academic performance,/ but why?/ According to scientists/ music

has a very big impact on the brain./ Through brain scans, /scientists have studied the neuronal

processes that occur/ when someone hears music,/ and it is amazing /how music involves the work

/of almost all the brain structures:/ the motor cortex,/ the visual cortex,/ the frontal cortex,/the

cerebellum,/among many many others./ This translates into a better development /of several

competences in musicians /such as language,/ memory,/ creativity,/ concentration, / motors skills,

/ logic, / mathematics,/ etc./ Not without reason, /some of the greatest scientists /and thinkers in

history/ such as Rousseau and Einstein,/ were musicians/ and appreciated the music in the same

way/ as philosophy /or physics.

In order to illustrate/ more clearly this information,/ I invite you to watch the next TED video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED_Mok754DQ

In this moment, / do you still think/ music is not as important as your majors?
Its sad to say /but many people think /that effectively /music is not important. /It is sad because/

even when the large number of benefits/ that music gives is proved, / our society just ignores and/

wastes ithem. /This type of attitude/ begins in the school, / where the problem that I am going to

talk about is present. /The musical education in schools /is very mediocre/ and squanders the

benefits that music can give /to childrens education.

In almost all the schools of Colombia, / the musical education is limited to one hour per week/ where

students and professors both /cannot do a good job. /Even, /the time of the class/ is wasted

sometimes / in other subjects different from music /such as the others classes /or the rehearsals for

institutional celebrations./

In this sense, /students do not learn/ what they should be learning /(musical notation, theory,

harmony, musical appreciation and the most important playing an instrument) /in order to activate

/and develop/ all the competences that I mentioned before.

Unlike Colombia, /in USA and Europes schools /the music is very important /and is one of the main

subjects of their curriculum./ The students graduate /knowing to play one instrument,/ reading

music, /having all the skills that music can give./ Not without reason /the students from those

regions/ get into college with high levels in mathematics,/ foreign languages, /sports, /social

sciences,/ etc./

On the other hand, /the musical education here in Colombia/ is a vicious circle /because the

students from school /cannot receive a good education /when the teachers they have got /are not

well prepared either./

In order to solve /or begin to improve this problem, /two things must be done./ First, /the

government must invest /and promote the music /not only as an entertainment space /but as an

integral part of the culture of our society /. The government could implement this solution by
making concert tickets cheaper, investing in projects and institutions like Batuta and Orquesta

Filarmnica de Bogot and creating informative campaigns about the importance of music with

parents and children in schools. Finally, /the government should support the professional musical

students /with scholarships abroad /where musical education is better /and also /with more spaces

to work here in Colombia, in order to encourage these students to work /as school teachers and

give a musical education/ with better quality in the country.

I finish my presentation /with two quotes from the composer Beethoven /and Annie Lennox:

Music represents a revelation higher than no philosophy (Ludwig van Beethoven)

I think that the music /is the most phenomenal platform for the intellectual thought./ (Annie

Lennox)

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