When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is very nice, people seem to think, but not important. Too often it is viewed as main entertainment, but certainly not an education priority. This view is short-sighted.In fact, music education is beneficial and important to all students. Music tells us who we are. Music is an expression of the people who create it. It reflects their thinking and values, together with the social environment it comes from. Rock music represents a lifestyle like a Schubert song. The jazz style that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. In some senses, it gives us identity in society. Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired in any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotional meaning of the same phenomenon, We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason:No one way can do it all at the same. The arts are forms of thoughts as powerful in communicating as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, curiosity, hunger, discoveries and hopes.The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with other, When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we deprive them of the the meaning that music expresses. Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be humans. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.