Check this out to discover many of the reasons why learning to play and sing, and learning about music, is SO good for you, in so many ways, and why it is such an important part of your overall education! Backed up by lots of scientific research! SCIENCE!!! 🙂  And remember, you don’t need a store-bought instrument to play music. You can use your voice, your body, your hands, sticks, you can even make your own instruments! (More on that another week).

20 Important Benefits of Music In Our Schools

And here’s a quote by a very wise, very famous philosopher from ancient Greece:
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             – Plato