The Ancient Greek Music Education Thought To Our Enlightenment

It is generally known that people tend to attribute the widely influence of music education ideology in ancient Greek to the fact that they have put their understanding about music education ideology into philosophy category. For this reason, we could draw more inspiration from thinking about the ideology and substance of music education in ancient Greek. Nowadays, the two important pillars of modern music education are common music education and profession music education, not only the education system and the design of curriculum need to be promoted to be more perfect, but also the way and contents of education. Although we have got a great academic performance on music education through generations’ efforts from the establishment of our country. Therefore, the purpose of the essay is gaining the real performance that the music education shows to us naturally by the categorization of the politics, economics, culture and education in ancient Greek, and getting inspirations by analyzing the current situation of music education objectively, so that we could get inspiration from these. The meaning of inspiration is to inspire people and let people understand without copying one’s examples. After all, we have a great difference on political system, customs and culture between the ancient Greek, and ancient Greek has been the past. After gaining inspirations, what should our teaching staff of music education should do. Mencius has said that the essence of our mind is thinking.. Researching and thinking is our most valuable wealth.