MORE MUSIC NEEDED.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 9

MORE MUSIC NEEDED.

"I havo long beliefed that there can be no right etiucation without music» Our education has not been as full ana well-rounded ns it might have been, because we have neglected to some extent tins, finer type of training' — this is the opinion ot the Hon. J. D. Maclean, .Minister of Education, British Columbia. • , . "Next to reading, writing and arithmetic, 1 place music as the most practical and essential of all things. In the home, around the fireside, in the church, iu the Sunday schools, we ail tuvn to music. > "As to the future of music in the schools, one must admit that here is the key to a true and better appreciation of the art on the part of the rising generation. Our public schools must get more consideration in the matter of musical education, as it is oi'lv through this medium that we shall be abie to unite in interesting the masses iu this great subject of music in the schools and music in the community.

•'Realising the powerful influence which music is exercising in the lives of our soldiers and among those wiio have been stricken with affliction in this terrible struggle for the freedom of the world, one"does not hesitate to commend the cause of music to those who have not yet made its acquaintance. "What the people need to-day is more music."