Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes:

Parents, educators, and students across our nation are desperate for what’s told of in “The Teaching Method That Meets America’s Hope.” It’s about the method that reaches even the most discouraged of young people: the method that enables students to see meaning in their subjects, to learn successfully, with authentic excitement—and also to really respect persons different from themselves!

Read “The Teaching Method That Meets America’s Hope,” this new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. 

And all who care about education in America will want to attend the exciting seminar described in this announcement.

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

This issue is about the great, magnificently successful, vitally needed Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method. It contains a paper presented at an Aesthetic Realism public seminar. As educator Leila Rosen describes an instance of her use of this method in New York City high school classrooms, we see its logic, its kindness—and its results. They are RESULTS thirsted for by our nation.

This Takes Place

What should happen in America’s schools? Young people should be enabled to learn successfully, to welcome eagerly into their minds the world that the curriculum represents. “The purpose of education,” Eli Siegel explained, “is to like the world through knowing it.” Also: through learning, America’s students should become kind—not want to hurt each other, not be prejudiced against and cruel to people different from themselves. What I’m describing could sound idealistic—it’s so far from what is occurring across our land. And yet it is ACTUAL: it happens through the Aesthetic Realism teaching method, as Ms. Rosen’s article makes clear.

The basis is the following landmark principle: “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.” Through it, students see that a subject taught in a classroom is really about them, about their hopes, and their worries. They see that the subject presents the world itself as something to respect and care for. They see their likeness to people they’d thought were very different from them; and they get a solid sense of the largeness of every human being. All this, the article of Ms. Rosen illustrates.

What Has Interfered

I am going to describe why this teaching method is not yet being used all across America. The reason is the same reason why, over the centuries, ways of seeing that brought new justice to reality, science, art, and human beings, have often been opposed by individuals who felt this new justice would lessen their superiority and supremacy. So there was resentment of such people as Galileo, Keats, Darwin, Martin Luther King—and Eli Siegel…. Read more