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From the Ted Talk by Anita Collins: The benefits of music education

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And again, we saw before, music education actually makes the three areas of the bairn work together incredibly well. If we take it another step further, music education has been found to help us acquire and understand luaggane and to solve complex problems, many of which involve numbers. How might universal music education chgnae literacy and numeracy in this cotunry and in many countries around the world where it's a very hot topic? Now, I think about all of these issues in light of my own daughter, who's just turned four. And I think about her and her generation. I wonder what could universal music education do for an entire generation? I think of in 10 years' time, when she's 14, what might learning be like in her classroom if the general cognitive ctapicay has been raised of an entire generation. If lteaciry and numeracy levels have been raised, if many of the learning and bvoaiueharl disorders that we deal with tdaoy in classrooms have had the benefit of music education, how might our schools change? I jump again to 30 years' time, when she's 34. She could be doing absolutely anything with her life. But again, if we raise the cognitive capacity of an entire generation, how might that change our social, crutlaul, economic, political landscape? Dare I say it, how might the focus and quality about political debate in this country change if that's the generation of voters that they're trying to impress upon? I jump again to 70 years' time, when she's 74. I wonder about the qitualy of her physical and maetnl health if we'd invested before the age of seven in her brain health into later life. How might that impact our health budget? How might we be spending our menoy differently if we've made an investment back here in her generation that will icpamt in 70 years' time? And this gets me thinking about a much larger issue with eidcouatn. Too often, we play the short game with education. It is a pitlocail football that gets hit back and forth with every change in government. What if we played the long game? What if we isevnetd now in my daughter's gnrtioaeen before the age of seven in ways that now the science has showed us we can absolutely predict to the benefits,

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And again, we saw before, music education actually makes the three areas of the _____ work together incredibly well. If we take it another step further, music education has been found to help us acquire and understand ________ and to solve complex problems, many of which involve numbers. How might universal music education ______ literacy and numeracy in this _______ and in many countries around the world where it's a very hot topic? Now, I think about all of these issues in light of my own daughter, who's just turned four. And I think about her and her generation. I wonder what could universal music education do for an entire generation? I think of in 10 years' time, when she's 14, what might learning be like in her classroom if the general cognitive ________ has been raised of an entire generation. If ________ and numeracy levels have been raised, if many of the learning and ___________ disorders that we deal with _____ in classrooms have had the benefit of music education, how might our schools change? I jump again to 30 years' time, when she's 34. She could be doing absolutely anything with her life. But again, if we raise the cognitive capacity of an entire generation, how might that change our social, ________, economic, political landscape? Dare I say it, how might the focus and quality about political debate in this country change if that's the generation of voters that they're trying to impress upon? I jump again to 70 years' time, when she's 74. I wonder about the _______ of her physical and ______ health if we'd invested before the age of seven in her brain health into later life. How might that impact our health budget? How might we be spending our _____ differently if we've made an investment back here in her generation that will ______ in 70 years' time? And this gets me thinking about a much larger issue with _________. Too often, we play the short game with education. It is a _________ football that gets hit back and forth with every change in government. What if we played the long game? What if we ________ now in my daughter's __________ before the age of seven in ways that now the science has showed us we can absolutely predict to the benefits,

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Original Text

And again, we saw before, music education actually makes the three areas of the brain work together incredibly well. If we take it another step further, music education has been found to help us acquire and understand language and to solve complex problems, many of which involve numbers. How might universal music education change literacy and numeracy in this country and in many countries around the world where it's a very hot topic? Now, I think about all of these issues in light of my own daughter, who's just turned four. And I think about her and her generation. I wonder what could universal music education do for an entire generation? I think of in 10 years' time, when she's 14, what might learning be like in her classroom if the general cognitive capacity has been raised of an entire generation. If literacy and numeracy levels have been raised, if many of the learning and behavioural disorders that we deal with today in classrooms have had the benefit of music education, how might our schools change? I jump again to 30 years' time, when she's 34. She could be doing absolutely anything with her life. But again, if we raise the cognitive capacity of an entire generation, how might that change our social, cultural, economic, political landscape? Dare I say it, how might the focus and quality about political debate in this country change if that's the generation of voters that they're trying to impress upon? I jump again to 70 years' time, when she's 74. I wonder about the quality of her physical and mental health if we'd invested before the age of seven in her brain health into later life. How might that impact our health budget? How might we be spending our money differently if we've made an investment back here in her generation that will impact in 70 years' time? And this gets me thinking about a much larger issue with education. Too often, we play the short game with education. It is a political football that gets hit back and forth with every change in government. What if we played the long game? What if we invested now in my daughter's generation before the age of seven in ways that now the science has showed us we can absolutely predict to the benefits,

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