Music

The Power of Music

For millennia music has inspired humans in an elegant array of transformative modes of being. Music helps humans to worship, to find calm, to tell stories, to entertain, to tell time, to express creativity, to call people to action, and to remember a tremendous variety of information.

Teachers have used music as a way to teach new concepts and terms, and to memorize important texts. Muslims, Christians, and Jews have used songs to learn their sacred stories and writings. The Mongol warriors would sing while they rode to recite their laws and even military instructions. In recent years, there has been an eruption of new music and eduparodies of popular songs that help students to learn so many different bodies of knowledge.