“Just as there can be no education without learning; no education is complete without music” Growing Up Complete (1991)
As we gather this March to celebrate “Music in Our Schools” month - many of our readers may not be aware of the events that occurred twenty years ago to help preserve music education in our schools and launch the modern era of music and arts education advocacy. Thus, my riff on the opening stanza of the Beatles, Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
But it’s also a question for the future. When leaders of the future twenty years from now look back on 2011… what will they say… about our actions?