Mmic in education
He has passed the strictures they deserve on teachers who know
nothing of music and who cannot teach it to the children in their charge
or help them to develop a taste for it. A great educationist-Pestalozzi,
I think-has said that a man who knows nothing of music is unfit to
bring up children. He was quite right.
Our schoolmistresses and schoolmasters must be musical, they must
be able to play some instrument which will make their teaching easier.
Several periods a week must be devoted to music in all schools. The
public authorities must give the grants needed: it will prove to be
money well spent. Music, that messenger of amity, brotherhood and
peace, must be one of the basic items in the education and cultural
training of the peoples. But, above all, what has been said here, the
proposals or suggestions made, must be taken up again and embodied
in a programme of actidn which will be universally endorsed by all who
nourish the same hopes and are ready to give of their best so that the
world of tomorrow may reap the harvest of beauty, brotherhood and
peace.
[Translated from the French J
THE CURATIV,E
POWERS OF MUSIC
by
Christine HENDRICKX-DUCHAINE
Chairman of the Music Section of the Belgian Inter-sanatoria Social ServiceIt is not our intention to make a strictly scientific survey of the thera-
peutic use of music.
This question has not been widely studied in Belgium. We describe
below, however, two experiments in collective psychological treatment
which are germane to this subject.
We propose to give a short account of an organization set up in
Belgium for collective and individual psychotherapy in sanatoria and