Physician and biologist Lewis Thomas studied the undergraduate majors of medical school applicants. He found that:
--66 percent of music majors who applied to medical school were admitted, the highest percentage of any group.
--44 percent of biochemistry majors were admitted.
As reported in "The Case for Music in the Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, February 1994.
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MUSIC WORDS OF WISDOM
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose and is a test of the quality of a nation’s civilization.
---John F. Kennedy
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