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LEARNING TO LIKE THE WORLD:
A Class for Young People

LEARNING TO LIKE THE WORLD:
A Class for Young People

Taught by Robert Murphy & Barbara Allen

This class is temporarily postponed.

This workshop for young people between the ages of 5 and 12 teaches that their deepest desire is to know and like the world, and that everything—from a flower to mathematics to their mothers—can be used to like the world. We discuss (for example) Animals, Sports, Food, Imagination, Conversations, Friends, Poetry, Art, Music. Some subjects: Happiness Means You and the World Are a Team; Books Can Take Your Feelings Everywhere!; Hurray for People—They’ve Got Insides Like Yours!

Monthly Class

Registration for each class is required.

For Information, email Registrar@AestheticRealism.org, or call 212-777-4490.

3rd Saturday of each month, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

FACULTY BIOS: Barbara Allen, Robert Murphy
See articles: “Why Young Men Are Bored and Angry” by Robert Murphy, and “Ninth Graders Learn about Opposites in Reality, Literature, and Themselves” by Barbara Allen

Film by Ken Kimmelman

Here we present a work of art that—more than any other we know—can bring people the true composure and strength of mind and feeling everyone is thirsting for. See the stirring film of Eli Siegel’s prize-winning poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana.


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