Do Music Lessons Make You Smarter?
Eavesy
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Here I have a pretty interesting infographic from a website called Bridget de Courcy that claims that taking music lessons could make you more intelligent.
The infographic shows pictures of geniuses that were all musicians, information about improved math and reading skills and more. Check it out:
http://bridgetdecourcy.co.uk/lessons-make-you-smarter/
What do you all think?
The infographic shows pictures of geniuses that were all musicians, information about improved math and reading skills and more. Check it out:
http://bridgetdecourcy.co.uk/lessons-make-you-smarter/
What do you all think?
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Just like art & CDT. You either like such classes or you don't!
I didn't like them
There was something similar in Outliers or Freakonomics about households with more books correlating to kids who were high achievers.
David Cameron and Ed Miliband went to University, not just any University either, they went to Oxford. Do you think they're smarter as a result?
Who?!?
I took guitar lessons many years ago, and to my amazement, I found that my guitar playing improved tremendously. Quelle Surpris..!!
However, I can't really say that my ability to do Newtonian Equations, find a cure for AIDS or construct box girder bridges increased at all.
Perhaps if I'd taken piano lessons instead, eh..?
No worries! Predictive text is just as bad
But I didn't feel any smarter in any other subject. Indeed they say music is supposed to help your maths, but even after all those music lessons I was still hopeless at maths.
I took music lessons since I was a toddler until I rebelled at 14 or 15, and I'm still thick. I'm really bad at maths, too. Usually a D at school.
I learnt to read before I had my first music lesson, so I'm not that convinced there's a link between music and reading. I do have a good visual memory, but I think that's due to my life-long interest in art, architecture and cinema.
My interests lie in science. Music was painfully boring and pointless in comparison.
That said, I am glad that I know the basics and am able to play an instrument with some degree of competence.
As for whether it makes you smarter, I doubt it. I was usually an A* student at school, but I doubt that was related to music lessons. I was actually a bit crap at music compared to academia.
I disagree that having music lessons will make you smarter. Not everyone's brains are wired in the same way. Doing things that you find incredibly boring will likely only make you progress very little. I'm okay at basic mathematics.
One of the the facts basically said 5-7 year olds who had more tuition than their peers did better academically than their peers. Well, no surprise then.
That's what lessons are for.