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Aesthetic Realism Is Education

“Aesthetic Realism believes that a person who doesn’t like the world on an honest basis is not educated. The purpose of all education is…to find sense in the world; also honestly to hope to find sense in the world when that finding, as it often is, is difficult….The high point in education is when, through knowledge, the world has some likable meaning in it!…”

Educational Method Is Poetic

“[All] education is the oneness of your own mind and the whole world of mind that came before you and is present now. It is the individual meeting a forest and making a pleasant one of it; and that is a poetic thing….”

Further Reading

The Teaching Method That Meets America’s Hope
Issue #2014, September 18, 2019
What the Schools of America Need Most!
Issue #1910, September 23, 2015
Every Child & the World
Issue #1768, April 14, 2010
Learning: Ourselves & a World to Love
Issue #1758, November 25, 2009
Education, America, & Lois Mason
Issue #1701, September 19, 2007
History: Close to Us
Issue #1636, March 23, 2005
Education, Attention, & Love
Issue #1455, February 21, 2001
The Beautiful Purpose of Our Minds
Issue #1255, April 23, 1997
The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: The Right of Every Child
Issue #1149, April 12, 1995
Aesthetic Realism Is Education
Issue #12, June 20, 1973

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