Ultimately, we must not see music as putting correct notes together for performances; instead we must explore ways to transform the information in meaningful ways that would benefit the practice of educating and to benefit our lives.  If we as music educators refuse to discover ways to modify the information in telling ways to our students then we would have fail to educate each pupil through music.  It is time that the music education profession restructures itself so we can move away from musical instructions that lends itself to training and not educating.  We need our students to get a respectable education, but we need stronger educational standards that reflect ethically guided teaching and exemplary performances from teachers.  This is the only path for our pupils to become educated with advanced thoughts and to become worthy individuals.  

Where can we begin with this restructuring center around topics like cultural identity and beneficial learning assessments?  But, I believe we can begin with an appreciated music curriculum with an input from the music teachers in the classrooms.  This curriculum should involve the input of the teachers because they are professionals and their proficient progress over a period of time is valued towards our children.  A curriculum that would have wide-ranging strategies reflecting educated students that is what all music educators’ should hope for. It must show what they would have accomplished at the end of the school term, school year and their entire time in school.  

We must begin engaging our young university students while they are in the field practicing or even before.  They must occupy their minds with beneficial learning assessments, cultural identity, and a valuable music curriculum with their input; exemplary performances, ethical guided teaching and they must pay close attention to the differences between education and training.  The longer we take as a music education profession to aim at introducing these topics to our inexperienced, but talented future educators we would still be using musical instructions to train our students.  Parents allow their children to go to school with the hope that they are being educated through music, rather than trained. How long will it take us to begin educating our students through this blessed thing as some people refer to music, I hope it will not be much longer.