Gojmerac, Ivana. (2018). Importance of Music in Education System ◆.

Many studies
from field of education systems, neurophysiology and other sciences show to us that
music has big influence on human beings, especially on children and their cognitive
and psychophysical development. About good influence of music we also have
evidences in neurological researches on music and rhythm stimulation, which provide
to us unbelievable information about work of cerebral cortex during listening music
and playing music instrument. Next to all those incredible evidence of good
influence of music, education system of Bosnia and Herzegovina is created on
opposite foundations which are guided with the idea that there is nothing more
important in school and life than math, languages and science. Any kind of art in
this education system is considered as subject that does not have any value for
child development. Because of that, numbers of weekly and year classes of music are
lower and in most of those classes teachers are doing math or some other subject.
In this paper I will present series of research evidences from deferent scientific
fields like neurology, psychology and music pedagogy to demonstrate that music is
helpful for the acquisition of knowledge. In the end, this paper will also show
results from research which was held in Elementary music and ballet school "Novo
Sarajevo" in 2015. Those results show that more than 95% of students from all music
departments have excellent scores in subjects in general education and that music
has big influence on their development.