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A new study shows that young children who take music lessons show more advanced brain development and improved memory than those who do not. Apparently taking music lessons also helps kids pay attention. After a year, musically trained children performed better in memory tests which is linked to literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ.

The study shows that these effects occur in children as young as four years old.

Our school system should require all students to learn to read, write, and speak the language of music. In Canada we learn to speak English and we are required to learn some French. We are taught how to do astonishingly complicated math equations which most of us never use in life, and yet the children are not required to learn how to communicate in the most commonly-spoken language in the world -- our one common language -- music. It's easier than trigonometry and many more students will actually use it when they grow up.

The study was published in the journal Brain by McMaster University's Institute for Music and the Mind.

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