Plato - Education in Music is Sovereign

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This is an interesting article on the importance of

music. Thanks to Shree Sunder Ji.

The article can be found at

http://www.glvonline.com/About.htm

 

The great Rishis of Bharatavarsha had mastered the

oral tradition as a very potent, vibrant and

fool-proof medium for communication and learning. The

scriptures bear adequate testimony to this fact. Music

is the chief among them, being the first signpost of

broadcasting and communication thousands of years ago.

This concept has been outlined by the great

philosopher and Founding Father of modern education,

Plato, in his Republic when he proposed that,

‘Education in Music is Sovereign’. Plato further

explained his idea by saying this academic curriculum

could be mastered best and that too with ease when

texts are set to musical melody and rhythm. He also

maintained that knowledge in music would equip the

individual with the capacity to differentiate right

from wrong, good from bad, and beauty from ugliness,

thus culminating in building ethics, character and

values among individuals and in society.

In India insructions in all the branches of

learning were codified, taught, learnt, reproduced and

communicated through metres of textual language set to

musical melody either in rhythmic mode or in

non-rhythmic improvisational style. These branches of

learning are relevant in the modern era, more so as

they have great treasures of knowledge inputs buried

in the common heritage of our art and culture. Though

much of these have now become available in print,

integrating and recreating these primal sources of

knowledge and wisdom into a musical mode for

communication, learning and education will be a major

boost to our ongoing endeavours in the educational

sector.

 

Regards,

Raghava

 

 

 

 

 

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