How miserable will children without these skills be when they grow up?

I watched a video of Jack Ma’s speech today, and two sentences in it touched me. The first sentence is: The future is not a competition of knowledge, but a competition of wisdom and experience. The second sentence is: Children must learn music, physical education, sports, and art. Music makes people wise and psychic. Sports make people have team spirit and understand what teamwork is. Draw and let them learn to imagine. We must let children know many things besides knowledge, because the focus of education in the future will not be the imparting of knowledge. The focus of education will be on the cultivation of imagination, creativity and team spirit. This is worrying. In fact, many of our children, and even adults, are tone-deaf, and some of them cannot even sing simple musical notation, let alone what notes, what rhythms, and it is even impossible to understand the staff. During class, I faced a group of high school students. When I was appreciating an article, the music content was involved. I asked them if they had listened to classic songs such as \”Teach Me How to Miss Him\” ​​and \”Ode to Red Plum Blossoms\”. They all shook their heads in unison. They don’t know anything about bel canto singing, ethnic singing, or popular singing. They only know pop songs. If you play a bel canto song for them to sing, they won’t like it and call it unpleasant. To appreciate \”Yangchun Baixue\”, you must have knowledge of \”Yangchun Baixue\” to appreciate its beauty. Our kids are a little far from “elegant.” In the perception of most of us, things like music and art are illusory. They seem to make no money regardless of food or clothing. They often say: \”Don\’t deal with the frivolous things.\” What they value is the practical value. Apart from eating, drinking, sleeping, and housing, there seems to be nothing else. Once the above is satisfied, I don’t know what to do with the remaining money. So the spirit became depressed. We cannot just be human beings in the animal sense, but we must also be spiritual human beings. If you want to be a spiritually rich person, you have to add some \”virtual things\”. Just like music, art, literature and other imaginary things. Otherwise, children will not only have enough food, clothing, and study, but also their mobile phones. If you treat your mobile phone as your lifeline, it’s not surprising that if others take away your lifeline, you will seek death. Recently, a video of two gangsters has circulated on the Internet. The protagonists are both junior high school students. Both had their mobile phones confiscated and both committed suicide by jumping off a building in anger. The difference is that one was confiscated by the teacher and the student was about to jump off the building, but was stopped by the teacher in time. The other was that the parents confiscated it and threw it downstairs. The child jumped down on the phone and died. Let’s take a look at these shocking news. In Anhui, a 17-year-old boy sold his kidney to buy an Apple iPad. On the Internet, girls born in the 1990s posted photos and phone numbers on Weibo, offering to trade their first night for an iPhone. In Guangzhou, a 16-year-old girl insulted and beat her mother in order to buy an iPad, and was suffocated to death by her mother. What makes children so obsessed with mobile phones? In their lives, there is nothing but mobile phones. Why is this happening? That can only mean that apart from maintaining the basic needs of a person, all they have left is their mobile phone, and there is nothing else in their world. Therefore, their spiritual world is barren and barren. Mobile phones are their spiritual sustenance. If they lose them, they lose the meaning of being a human being. If children understand music, they will definitely love life and perceive the world with their hearts.Experience the world with your heart. Music makes people spiritual and wise. Music nourishes the human soul. With the influence of music, the human spirit will be rich and the heart will be full. Even music can become people\’s faith. How powerful is the power of faith! How could a person with faith, a rich spirit, and a full heart become obsessed with mobile phones? Gao Xiaosong, a person who understands music and loves music, even if he is in vulgarity countless times in life, he can always rise from the bottom. Music gave him faith, music gave him strength, and what he felt from music was the richness and value of life. A mentally strong person will not be beaten down by life. Music can channel spirits and broaden your mind. \”It was she who introduced me to these musical arts, which enabled me to enrich my understanding of the world and learn a broad way of thinking, so that I can avoid being stubborn and think more broadly about problems and be more lively.\” The great physicist Qian Xuesen This is how you evaluate the meaning of music. There is no doubt that music makes people wise and psychic. Qian Xuesen has a wife who is a singer who is proficient in music. He can also play the piano and bamboo flute. It is music that makes a scientist and a musician feel sympathetic to each other. The song \”Teach Me How to Miss Him\” ​​is well-known at home and abroad. Many people don\’t know that the composer is Zhao Yuanren, a famous Chinese linguist. Zhao Yuanren is a linguist, but he is extremely interested in music. He takes music as an elective, learns various musical knowledge, and also learns to play the piano. The significance of music to Zhao Yuanren is that music has achieved his linguistics. Linguistics in turn inspired him to create music. The connection between language and music influenced his lifelong academic research and artistic creation. By drawing on and referring to the pitch relationship in music, Zhao Yuanren proposed standards and scales for grasping the pitch of Chinese tones, and created a fifth-degree tuning system. On the basis of inheriting the Chinese language and national music traditions, he summed up the important rules of combining lyrics and music in song creation, and continued to practice them in his creative activities. Even Edison and Bell could play the piano. The importance of music is self-evident. A businessman friend said that he gave each of his three children a musical instrument. For this reason, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to let one child learn piano, another learn violin, and another learn guzheng. He is a far-sighted and knowledgeable parent, so he believes that his children must learn music. Because music can make children confident and make people interesting. When people have spiritual sustenance, life will be interesting and not boring. This is a thoughtful father. Now, his children are all excellent. Especially his daughter, who is optimistic, confident and cheerful, is studying abroad and enjoying herself very much. Likewise, painting and art play the same role as music. They make children imaginative, creative, confident, and spiritually rich. However, the reality is worrying. Nowadays, music and art courses in compulsory education are almost useless, especially in small counties and second-, third- and fourth-tier cities. Subjects such as music, art, and natural sciences are all taught in Chinese, mathematics, and English. Most of our students here, except for some who go to training classes to learn musical instruments or singing, don’t know how to read simplified musical notation after finishing high school.Not to mention the staff. If you don’t understand some basic music knowledge, how can you appreciate a musical work? I remember that in a music elective class in college, the teacher asked us to listen to a song \”The East is Red\” and asked us to analyze the rhythm, notes, and emotional changes of the song after listening to it. Most students can only stare because they don\’t understand anything. The music knowledge that the school should have given us was not given to us. We have nothing but grades in the main subjects. Some students don\’t even attend physical education classes, preferring to stay in the classroom and do a math problem. Some parents who are more conscious send their children to various music, art, and sports interest classes. But not all parents can afford it, and some who can afford it don’t have this awareness. It’s just that the resources in small places are not as rich and abundant as in big cities. The environment also widens the distance between children. My son has shown a strong sense of musical rhythm and pitch since he was a child. During the kindergarten period, we attach great importance to the cultivation and edification of children\’s music and pictures. The children are like a fish in water, singing and dancing very happily. What is rare is that the kindergarten also teaches music theory knowledge. But after my son entered elementary school, I never heard him singing new songs when he came home. So, I decisively enrolled him in piano classes and art classes. He was very willing and showed some talent. I don’t expect him to have any accomplishments in this area in the future. I just hope that he will have one or two specialties of his own and be able to live alone with himself without feeling lonely when he is alone. After seeing Jack Ma’s speech, I became more determined in my approach!