Mi&c in educationEach of you can follow the line of reasoning for yourselves. All profes-
sional musicians are at first children. To the teacher greeting them in their
first day of school, her pupils are more or less all alike. For many years most
musicians will have learned at least some of their music along with a crowd
of children of their own age who will have turned out other than profes-
sional musicians.
The same can be said of the musicologist-he has first of all been a child.
Later he must have become trained as a musician in company with other
young people undergoing similar training.
When the prospective musician and the musicologist begin their specia-
lized professional training, they do not break off normal life and become
monstrosities. Rather, the earlier training leads into an addition, not a sub-
stitution or supersession, of it. The specialized education is, and should be
regarded rather as an extension of pre-school and school education. Or,
looking at it from the other direction, professional studies have their roots
in general studies, just as the art studied has its roots in the general life of
the community that cultivates it.
I am quite aware that this has not been the view during the first half of
the twentieth century. These 50 years have been par excellence the era of
specialization. But already, in nearly every branch of learning, the hope is
being expressed that those strands which have been unravelled in the first
half of the century will be woven together again in the second half. Music
has become many different things to many people. But to all of us, I believe,
especially when we come face to face, from many parts of the world, in such
gatherings as this, it is quite as true that music is one!
Do not misunderstand me. We can prove scientifically the diversity of
the musics of the world as we can that of all human observations. We cannot
prove that music is one universal art any more than that all men are brothers.
But we can-and many of us do-have faith in the oneness of music and of
humanity.
It is faith in the oneness of humanity that has brought into existence and
inspired the great intergovernmental organization that has convened this
conference-Unesco.
It is faith in the oneness of music that has brought into existence and
inspired the infiant non-governmental Organization that has co-operated
with Unesco in proposing and planning this conference-The International
Music Council.
If we, through the founding of this international society for music edu-
cation, hold out our hands to the International Conference on Education of
the Professional Musician and to the International Society for Musicology,
some of whose members have taken part in this conference, we shall not be
disappointed! And we shall not only have benefited our primary interest by
this invitation to two of the best allies we could hope for, but we shall have
done what we can in our own particular way to bring about the world
unity of mankind through friendship, co-operation and mutual under-