Blog 7

 My annotations from the article: “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” By Yo-Yo Ma.

 

I feel that I am successfully achieving my annotation goals by making personal connections to the text as well as pulling out the main ideas of the text that the author is trying to get across.

The article “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” was written by Yo-Yo Ma. The article was originally published on the World-Post, which is an online news and blog site created through a partnership between liberal news aggregator the Huffington Post and nonpartisan think tank the Berggruen Institute on Governance. The site launched in January 2014 in Davos, Switzerland. From reading Ma’s bio I learned that Ma was very successful in the music industry, from all the years of music created by Ma I can image that music has helped Ma through a lot of situations in his life. Ma grew up with music from a very young age and Ma wants to influence others that music and art has a huge impact on a person life and helps develop more than just creativity. Ma wants to help add arts and music into the schooling system STEM, making it STEAM. I find this article to be very relevant in today’s schooling system. I do feel like education in art and music is often looked down upon. I find that most people are only taught in the focus of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics because these are the main topics of education that are said to teach you all the skills you need in life and to also help you get a successful job in the future. I feel like art is never considered to be a successful workforce. I feel that the importance of art needs to be shared with everyone since art and music and truly teach a person so much. People are focusing on learning about critical thinking instead of empathetic thinking. So why is learning the importance of art and music important? Well, art and music can teach us to cope with tough situations, help us express our emotions, tell stories, and help develop cultures and traditions. I find that learning art and music could help improve the care given to patients from a lot of health care professionals like myself as a dental hygiene major. Developing knowledge for music and art can help health care providers have an understanding of empathetic thinking by taking emotions as well as reason into account.

 

Equilibrium- Opposing force or influence is balanced

Interdependent- Of two or more people or thing that is dependent on each other

Cellist- A person who plays the instrument Cello

 

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