【题目】How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is short-sighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Music reflects the creators' thoughts and values, as well as the social environment it came from. For example, just as Mozart's music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. The influence of jazz, which George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music, is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.
Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores the emotive meanings. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world because no one way can get it all.
Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings "talk" to each other. Through this "language" we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.
So music education is much more important than people generally realize.
Title: Music education is of great 【1】
Passage outline | Detailed information |
Introduction | Short-sighted opinion: Music is only a way of entertainment, not the top choice for education. Truth: Music education is necessary and important for all students. |
Main body | A way to tell who we are: Music not only reflects the social environment it came from but also expresses people's thoughts and 【2】 |
A way to know the world: We can't discover and respond to our world in just one way. Science explains how nature 【3】 Music explores the emotive meanings of nature. | |
A way to communicate with others: We use music to 【4】 our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes. Music, 【5】 from science, tells us what it means to be human. | |
Conclusion | Music education is very important. |