Music with Lacey

• According to the most recent scientific knowledge, musical activity involves nearly every region of the brain and nearly every neural subsystem.
• In a 1999 Columbia University study, students in the arts are found to be more cooperative with teachers and peers, more self-confident, and better able to express their ideas.
• Students with good rhythmic performance ability can more easily detect and differentiate between patterns in math, music, science and the visual arts.
• Music is unique to humans and as basic as language to human development and existence. Through music, children gain insight into themselves, others, the world around them, and life itself.
• The amount of musical potential each child has is directly and greatly influenced by the musical exposure, experience and encouragement he receives from birth through age nine. 
• "Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."--Plato