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I didn't submit this but I just voted for it because I think it is a good thing.
Here it is:

Music education initiative

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Fi_si

Description:
Proposal: Music Education offers many benefits, both on a personal and community level The UN recognizes that Music is an essential part our children’s education and should be an important part of the core curriculum in all schools worldwide. Music(both instrumental and vocal) shall be made available to all students in all schools.



Benefits
1. Music contributes to the school and community environment (quality of life).
2. Music helps prepare students for a career and is an avocation.
3. Music makes the day more alive and interesting, which in turn leads to more learning.
4. Music combines behaviors to promote a higher order of thinking skills.
5. It provides a way to image and create, contribute to self-expression and creativity.
6. Music enriches life, it is a way to understand our cultural heritage as well as other past and present cultures. (see article by Bill Pharis)
7. Performing, consuming and composing are satisfying and rewarding activities.
8. Music contributes to sensitivity
9. Music education provides for perceptualÑmotor development.
10. It encourages team work and cohesiveness.
11. It fosters creativity and individuality.
12. Music education adds to self-worth of participants.
13. Music education fosters discipline and commitment.
14. It is a major source of joy and achievement.
15. Music provides unique and distinct modes of learning
16. Music is a therapeutic outlet for human beings.
17. It is a predictor of life's success
18. It develops intelligence in other areas
19. To provide success for some students who have difficulty with other aspects of the school curriculum.
20. To help the student realize that not every aspect of quantifiable and that it is important to cope with the subjective.
21. The music program is very cost-effective

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I didn't submit this but I just voted for it because I think it is a good thing.
Here it is:

Music education initiative

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights


Strength: Significant


Proposed by: Fi_si

Description:
Proposal: Music Education offers many benefits, both on a personal and community level The UN recognizes that Music is an essential part our children’s education and should be an important part of the core curriculum in all schools worldwide. Music(both instrumental and vocal) shall be made available to all students in all schools.



Agreed



Benefits
1. Music contributes to the school and community environment (quality of life).
2. Music helps prepare students for a career and is an avocation.


Agreed


3. Music makes the day more alive and interesting, which in turn leads to more learning.


Depends upon the music and the student. If the student does not like the kind of music he/she is playing, he/she will not necessarily have a improved feeling (perhaps may be more miserable) for other activities.


4. Music combines behaviors to promote a higher order of thinking skills.
5. It provides a way to image and create, contribute to self-expression and creativity.


Agreed


6. Music enriches life, it is a way to understand our cultural heritage as well as other past and present cultures. (see article by Bill Pharis)


Because every UN member is going to run off and type Bill Pharis into google..... (not to mention, legality issues)


7. Performing, consuming and composing are satisfying and rewarding activities.


Disagree. Again, depends upon the student


8. Music contributes to sensitivity
9. Music education provides for perceptualÑmotor development.
10. It encourages team work and cohesiveness.
11. It fosters creativity and individuality.


Agreed


12. Music education adds to self-worth of participants.


Again, depends on the student. Those that succeed will find greater self-worth. Those that can't figure out whether they're hitting a C not or a F will....have a much diminshed personal opinion.


13. Music education fosters discipline and commitment.


Er......I think that's also student dependant (believe me, it would've taken one heck of a big gun pointed at my head to make me committed to any form of music)


14. It is a major source of joy and achievement.


Same comment as 12


15. Music provides unique and distinct modes of learning
16. Music is a therapeutic outlet for human beings.


Fair enough


17. It is a predictor of life's success


Never heard that argument before.....


18. It develops intelligence in other areas
19. To provide success for some students who have difficulty with other aspects of the school curriculum.
20. To help the student realize that not every aspect of quantifiable and that it is important to cope with the subjective.
21. The music program is very cost-effective

No contest

I think WHAT you want is good (and mind you, I HATED music), I think your arguments are too....generalized towards those that accel at music while ignoring those whose strengths are elsewhere.

Also, it felt like you were getting lazy towards the end - your style changed and I found that to be an annoyance.

I didn't submit this but I just voted for it because I think it is a good thing.

-snip-


I'm not sure I like the idea of forcing all nations to support music education (I understand this isn't even your proposal so this might be the wrong person to communicate this to). However, I have been interested in a proposal which preserves or record musical and linguistic diversity among peoples and nations, or, more appropriately, a proposal that creates a group (committee, commission, etc.) that does that. I'm not sure how much jurisdiction it would have over nations (it would only have linguists and musicologists--and maybe a little bit of management--and they would just go around recording the various musics and languages in the world, not exactly hugely infringing upon national sovereign rights). Maybe there'd be some infringement in preserving languages and music (as this would mean influencing the policy decisions of member nations). I'm not sure I want to do that.

Anyway, I have qualms about the way this is written, anyway, mainly in that it lacks definitions and makes some unnecessary assertions. But I would support (meaning I will write, I suppose) a proposal which does what I detailed above.

I have a hard time with this one. While I agree that education is important, in all its forms, I don't agree that this is any more important than any other form of eduation. On those grounds, I cannot approve this. Understand the precedent that is being set. Next we'll see a proposal to save Math.


Don't believe me??? Let's examine the lovliness that is Whale Banning. It has spawned the dolphin act. I'm still wait for someone to explain to me what a dolphin is, they don't exist on my world. Now, we have one for something called a shark, and one for national animals.

THe precendent has been set and it is a bad one. I don't want to see this happen again, sorry.