Mr. Finlay's Philosophy of Music Education
Music is necessary in the process of every human’s development. Music facilitates and nurtures self-expression, creativity, observation, audial recognition, improves concentration, and stimulates emotional responses that cannot be reached by any other source. It exercises the eyes, ears, mind and body. Music lowers stress, raises intelligence, and provides a hobby.
Music In Our Minds
Music is in everything because it makes beautiful things more beautiful, and unhappy events more bearable. I’m convinced that the very people who are instrumental in removing music programs from certain school curriculums drive home with the car radio playing, walk up to their front door humming a tune all the while not realizing an enthusiastic music teacher with skills to motivate students, was responsible for training the people who are now our most favored entertainers of the world.