Today I want to make a reflection on the plastic arts, music, plastic and physical education. These three areas should be the foundations of the others, physical exercise makes neurons able to establish connections, and in this way you can learn easier, we learn to sequence and that would be useful to read, add, and for the rest of learning. Let's not forget about music, which is activated, it is a brain gym, as well as plastic because with both emotions are put into operation. Without emotion there is no learning.
According to David Bueno, "The plastic arts; such as music, and physical education, stimulate children's brains". Both are more important than we think, through them neuronal plasticity is activated.
In Primary I see a decline in these plastic arts, music should have more hours, and children could learn to play any instrument and the more difficult it is, the more it increases that development in their brain. Get excited learning, and that emotion makes everything more efficient. From Plato to Confucius, music was used to calm tension. Like the
Physical Education, also undervalued, sometimes students are punished by not attending that class; for their bad behavior. I cannot contemplate replacing an area so important for the development of the body and health, as punishment.
The alphabet is learned by singing, if we are distressed; music frees us and helps us with stress. Psychotherapist Paul Ekman suggests that all human beings share 6 basic emotions which are "happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust and fear. We can have different education and languages, but these emotions make us human and music gives us the opportunity to express them"
The tendency is for children to go to music class, in non-school hours and that means that in many occasions they abandon, due to tiredness and boredom; and it takes away hours of leisure, hence the importance that schools should have more opportunity.
Moving on to another part of the music; I want to refer to those artists who have spent 10 or more years in a conservatory, and who have an extraordinary sensitivity. I have witnessed all the effort and sacrifice involved; preparing and studying, practicing for hours with unlimited passion and being little recognized.
Birthdays, private parties, sessions in the hotel sector, where a musician, pianist, saxophonist, double bass, guitarist, and other artists are relegated to the background, you see them in full sun playing, without giving them the place they deserve. When I worked in the tourism sector, I went through the piano bar of any hotel and saw that more merit was given to an improvised show than to a musician who played the piano. People passed by without even stopping to listen to him.
For many years, in that Middle Ages, musicians were service personnel of the nobles, they could not even sign their works, which changed in the Renaissance. They were not valued, and I have observed that in some areas it is still the same.
In my work as a teacher I have seen how with music they learn faster, from an alphabet or in my yoga classes, with meditation music they manage to be relaxed. Hence the importance that we must give to that art, as well as to those mentioned above.
“Music gives soul to the Universe and wings to the mind” Plato.
