▶ Your Answer : Some people think that art and music is not
important as much as math, history, science and language. However, in my
opinion, make art and music as compulsory school subjects is good for students.
The first reason is art and music help students to relieve their stress and the
second reason is students has no chance to seriously learn these subjects.To begin with, art and music help students to
avoid the stress from assignments. Since the students have a lot of things to
do, such as home works, personal lessons and extracurricular activities, they
are exposed to stressful situations. However, music and art subjects can be the
outlet of the students’ stress, because it makes the viewers calm. Therefore,
the students can be free from the stress and get better concentration on their study.
For example, a study conducted by a group of psychology majors in Seoul University
to determine whether music and art could affect the work efficiency. There were
two groups monitored. The first group is formed of students who did not take music
or art class. They were asked to take math test after the regular class to measure
their level of study efficiency. The other group is consisted of students who
had music or art class and were given the same direction, except they take art
or music class instead of regular class. The researchers compared the outcomes
and recorded that the students who take art or music class had higher performance
at the math test than who did not take. This was because, the art and music make
viewers refresh their minds and get new strength to do next action. This study
demonstrates that art and music class help students to focus on their work effectively.
On top of that, if art or music class is
not a mandatory for students, they have no chance to learn these field deeply. Elementary
school students have lots of chance to meet art or music. However, when these students
get older, they seldom to learn art and music, because parents want their children
to fully concentrate on their learning other subjects which actually help their
future life. Therefore, students tent to disregard these subjects and ignore to
learn it and this situation make students hard to learn art or music in the
future life, because of their lack of rudimentary knowledge about art and music.
For example, my cousin entered the art club in the university and he did not know
about the art since his school does not offered this subject. However, he has
interest in art and he want to learn it in the club. When he first enjoyed the
club, he expected that he can learn the art from the basic and many other students
have same level of knowledge but, the real life is different. He noticed that all
the other students are already aware of the art and they does not want to hang
around with person who has no information about art. Therefore, he cannot get a
chance to learn art at the club.
To sum up the art and music class help students
to focus on their study and if the school did not offer these class, students have
no chance to learn these field afterward. In this regard, I think that children
should have art and music class as mandatory. |