Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Swedish study of early Brain developement

There was a study By Swedish Scientist on children younger than 10 taking piano lessons whether by an instructor or self taught. The article was on yahoo news on 8-09-05 called Early Piano practice gets brain on course for flourishing career.Quoting a Sentence " It is well-known that most of the world's great pianists were already practiceing their scales and arpeggios while still under 10 years old, and the study published in the Nature Neuroscience Journal, shows that this is no coincidence. " It is too bad our grade school "so call" teachers do not understand this information. it is known that grade school teachers want band out of grade school courses. The reason is that to play an instrument the student has to learn the entire piece or scales, etc. The student in grade school is taught piece meal and each session becomes a mountain. The musical leader or instructor has to be able play the instrument and in the process leads by showing and proving that it can be done. The grade school teacher does not lead in the same way. Teacher's college does not teach the subjects to the potential teacher that the teacher will try to lead the student. This article should be very enlightning to our so call Educators.

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