It's amazing the sources you find a little bit of truth..
*A Parable*
"Imagine a society in which the citizens are encouraged, indeed compelled up to a certain age to read(and sometimes write) musical scores. All quite admirable,. However this society also has a very curious law-few remember how it all started- and the disturbing law: Music must never be listened to or performed!"
This was from Tristan Needham in his preface to Visual Complex Analysis, regarding mathematics..
isn't this what we've had for one century after another..