Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock recently met with experts in music, education, and technology at the Department of Education to discuss the "Math, Science & Music" program — a toolkit of resources that uses music to help teach math and science.
"This is a groundbreaking approach to learning, that will revolutionize the way our young people discover and master essential skills in the fields of science, technology and math," Hancock said. "Ensuring that our next generation of students are ready and able to make valuable contributions to a world where knowledge of these subjects are a necessity, because their intrinsic principles have become an essential part of our daily lives."
Hancock, who holds degrees in both music and electrical engineering, emphasized the need to better integrate music into math and science lessons.
"The teaching methods that we have, how old are they? How many hundreds of years old are they?" Hancock asked. "It's the 21st century ... And so we have to do something about re-examining how we've been doing things, and find new ways to do things that are commensurate with the world that we live in now, and the one that they will build in the future."
Read the entire feature on the NY Daily News website.
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