Does music education help you learn?

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Studies show ... pthhhh.

It seems to be a reasonable statement .. (take a look at Dave Matthews fans' mastery of grammar.. don't know shit about music, don't know shit about English -har har.)

Seems as if the people that I know who are intelligent are also into music at least deeper than the top 40. But is that *because* they like music, or is it just that people who want to stretch their minds in general also like to explore the arts ...? i.e. curious people want to learn from as many sources as possible .. people who don't care about learning don't care about much of anything ...

..whaddya think?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not exactly sure what you mean here - I don't think you're referring to Music Education, as part of a regular school curriculum. If you mean "does listening to music enrich people in other areas of their life, including their aptitude in school subjects?" then it really depends. I have heard of studies that correllate music intelligence with math/science intelligence (long stort short, there is a brand of educational theory that says people have many different "intelligences" for different types of knowledge), but I can tell you this relationship can be hard to measure, and is certainly not a hard and fast rule.

However, I would always recommend everyone have some kind of music performance/appreciation/discussion as part of their regular educational curriculum. <hippie>I think if more people actually played or sang music on a regular basis, life would be better.</hippie>

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

being educated about music helped me get really bored in high school chemistry and get bad grades, but now I'm writing about chemicals so it's all good brody.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems as if the people that I know who are intelligent are also into music at least deeper than the top 40.

I've not exactly found this to be the case. It's certainly true of most (all?) of my friends. But while perusing Friendster recently, I was looking at the profiles of a couple of college classmates of mine who are in, like, biology Ph.D. programs -- people who graduated magna cum laude -- and their Favorite Music section lists all Top 40 acts.

i.e. curious people want to learn from as many sources as possible

This I'd also cast some doubt upon. I'm amazed at how many of my friends who say they're "into the arts" are really well versed and interested in one art form but completely ignorant of others. I have friends who are into theatre, for example, which is one of the least "pop-culture" art forms out there, and so they're familiar with and into crazy shit like Ionesco plays -- but they seem wholly uninterested in exploring music beyond the Pearl Jam they've been listening to since high school.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I was gonna say my brother is a freakin' neurosurgeon and still depends on me to buy him any good records.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems as if the people that I know who are intelligent are also into music at least deeper than the top 40.

I wish that were true for me. Then again, I'd take either half. Oops...

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 21 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"I was looking at the profiles of a couple of college classmates of mine who are in, like, biology Ph.D. programs -- people who graduated magna cum laude -- and their Favorite Music section lists all Top 40 acts"

Over the years, especially in this world renowned institution of technology I attend, I have become aware that there is a great difference between academic brains and, well, being actually smart. I've met a lot of stupid fucks here that can carry a 4.0 grade point average. And, you might say, how can you judge pure intelligence if not my grades and academic standing? I think its just purely subjective. It is true that here there is greater percentage of people I actually consider smart than in the rest of the world, but the smartness does not necesarily go hand in hand with grades. Some people just study more.

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 21 May 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Cacaman sounds bitter as he feeds us his bulljive

― ASomoan, Saturday, 22 May 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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