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The Gift of Music in Education
Kwasi Enin is a 17-year-old From Long Island, NY, and has been receiving a great deal of media attention lately. Rightly so, because he was accepted to, not one, not two, but all eight Ivy League schools. This young man’s story is the kind of thing that should lead every newscast, every night.
He has worked hard to excel, not just in his schoolwork, but in sports, student leadership, theater and music as well. His college essay brims with youthful optimism and insight. His essay, entitled “A Life in Music,” states the truth about the value of music education so succinctly and so elegantly, I just had to reprint it here.
“Music has become the spark of my intellectual curiosity,” he writes. “I directly developed my capacity to think creatively around problems due to the infinite possibilities in music.”
Well said, Kwasi.