There are several opinions about whether learning music and art should be emphasized in high school. Some people say that it's important to learn music and art for as high school students, because music and art classes are beneficial for building up one's mind. In my opinion, however, education on music and art should not be emphasized in high school, because almost all students don't need credits from music and art classes to enter university and it will cost lots of money to give high school students sophisticated more art and music education.
To begin with, music and art classes are not important because they don't it doesn't affect on entering university. In Korea, students are spending lots of time reading books and memorizing facts from textbooks to get accepted to university. Actually, prominent universities that most high school student want to get in don't require high demand on the scores of music and art classes, except for the students who want to major in music and art. This means that to enter the universities, students don't need to take music and art classes. As a result, if high school authority prolongs the minimum credit of music and art classes, students will waste of their time, because music and art are not crucial to enter university.
Furthermore, there are not enough teachers and facilities are not enough to give more music and art education for high school students in Korea. If students have more classes for music and art in high school, it will be possible for them to have more specified and specialized music and art education. However, that kind of education on music and arts demand different teachers who are majored in different fields of studies such as composition, singing and art history as well as facilities such as orchesatra and art room. Consequently, more teachers and facilities cost lots of money, which is not impossible for Korean high schools, because they are now going through financial hardship.
In conclusion, learning music and art is not important for high school students. They should spend more time on studying math and English which are more crucial to get accepted to univerity than studying art and music is. Moreover, learning music and art costs money, which burdens financially for high schools because different art and music classes need specialized faculties and facilities. As a result, students don't need to spend more time to learn music and art in high school. |