Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes:

On Thursday, Nov. 1st, from 6:30 PM to 8 PM, there will be a seminar that will present the answers teachers, administrators, and parents are desperate for: “Students Learn and Are Kinder: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds!”  Teachers of math, ESL, science, and the humanities, from elementary through high school, will present classroom lessons showing the powerful success of this tested and really beautiful method.

In schools all over America, students are angrier and more distressed than ever.  The Aesthetic Realism teaching method reaches even the most disheartened students, and enables them to see meaning in their subjects, to learn with genuine excitement.  The basis is this principle stated by Eli Siegel, the great American poet and critic, founder of Aesthetic Realism:

“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.”

As students see, through their subjects, that the world has a structure, the oneness of opposites, a structure that makes sense, their anger and cynicism change and they want to learn those subjects.  They also become kinder: students see that people they’ve felt were very different are also trying to put opposites together.  Through this method, students of diverse ethnic backgrounds, who have looked down on and even fought with one another, come to respect and truly care for each other.

Contri. $10