The importance of music in learning is often underestimated. I remember growing up in a household were music was played at all times, but once homework time came around, all music was stopped. My parents strongly believed that in order to learn best, there had to be absolute silence. I always thought otherwise, and I was right. Music is phenomenal in motivating creativity in children, helps improve cognitive and language skills, and most importantly helps boost their confidence and self-esteem.
Music brings the creative side of people out. Think about it, songs, raps, even art are inspired by music. It opens up your imagination, and it makes you do beautiful things. I believe this to be true. I am really into art, and I like to paint. My best paintings have been those were I turn on my music, and just let the music lead. My paintings often express the mood I was in while listening to a certain song.
Music also helps improve language and cognitive skills. A perfect example of this was the Gabby Gifford’s case, she found language through music therapy after a horrible injury. She started singing the words that she could not speak, because it was so much easier for her. It mentioned in the video that language in the brain is only located in the left part of the hemisphere, whereas music is located in both. This makes it so much easier for language to not be fully affected. Movement that music provides also helps children in helping recognize shapes, numbers or letters, and always find some type of movement or rhythm associated with poems or stories.
Boosting self-esteem and confidence is also something music is known to help with. I’ll use myself as an example again, I am an extremely shy person, but when it comes to music, I lose myself and forget all about being shy, and it honestly makes me feel good about myself. To study for exams, I play classical music, and