Music Education: Shaping Young Minds

Music they say is the heart of life. Music comes in so may forms with different meanings for different purposes. It’s funny how every corner of this earth has their own form of music. People in Ghana have their own genre of music as compared to someone in Sweden or another part of the world. But, music is what brings us together most of the time.

Sometimes I scroll through my social media and I see artists on their world tour and it’s so beautiful how music can unite a billion people from all walks of life. It’s really amazing. Now, let’s talk about the whole concept of music and children. I remember how back in crèche, nursery, kindergarten and through to high the main teaching strategy my teachers used was music. In crèche, we didn’t know anything aside crying, eating , playing around and going home. But trust me, there’s more to it than just these things. In as much as we thought we didn’t learn anything then, I’d like to believe most of us learnt our first sentences and words from those rhymes and songs being played on the Tv in the classroom all day.

Our teachers would sing to us for most part of the day while we watched these cartoons and danced to the tune. Oh, those were the days. Looking back to some 20 years ago, all I can say is, things have changed. We always talk about evolution and how it’s good to adapt to new thing but I never thought things would get to this. Tell me why kids in preschool and lower primary are singing and dancing to ‘have you seen the state of her body, mad -Central Cee’ instead of ‘baby shark doo doo doo doo baby shark’.

What really are our kids bing taught in school these days because these songs are just not it. Music shapes a child more than we think it does. The kind of content you feed your children with be it through words, music or what have you would play a huge role in shaping who they are or will be in future. Parents take their kids to school because they want them to learn what’s right but I guess some schools or should I say the system has a whole new agenda.

High school kids listening to all sorts of music and even practicing the words these musicians say. It’s funny how kids of today know more than even we the adults. And the most shocking part of all this is how everyone just seems to be okay with it all in the name of being woke. You want to be woke? I bet you’ll feel woke when you finally realize what your kids have become , thanks to the music they’re being fed with in school. This is why I’m totally against the whole concept of ‘our day’ in todays world. Imagine a school charging a fee of about 2 to 3 dollars just to play trash music for your kids to twerk to. Hell no!

I thought music was meant to be one of the best tools to promote teaching and learning in school but now it looks more like we are grooming ‘bad bitches’ and gang leaders in our schools. Let’s all endeavor to pay attention to our kids and be present in their lives because it is only through this that we can truly know who they are in order to shape them into responsible adults.

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