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I think I was a little too ambitious with my topic, and I'm glad that it narrowed to sports, and as a result we were able to have a more interesting discussion than if it had remained more general and tried to encompass both sports and music. So, while we discussed sports a lot in class, I'll take this time to discuss a little bit about how music relates to education. While most people (myself included) would first think of learning a musical instrument as the connection between music and education, I believe that by itself music can be a strong form of education independent from a classroom. We can learn a lot from the world around us, and on the rare occasions that I watch the news (I at least watch the daily show a little more often than I do a standard news broadcast or read the newspaper) I feel that I gain a great deal of knowledge and information, and am forced to analyze this new knowledge, think critically, and eventually either develop an opinion or determine that I need to become more familiar with the topic before having an opinion. In many ways, music can have a similar effect. From Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" to Public Enemy being acknowledged as "the black CNN" (a voice for the black community, that was, and still is, often overlooked in mainstream news sources) music has served as an alternate medium to describe the world around us, the same world that we learn so much from, but from a different perspective. While classes analyzing music as a medium for education are becoming more common, they are still all too rare.