Excerpt from ?sthetic Education
This book maintains that every child should acquire in school a first-hand ?sthetic view of the world, as he now acquires an intellectual or a moral view of it.
Our present ?sthetic teaching is defective in several particulars: First, in that it is left to specialists alone; second, because, in consequence of this fact, it covers only a part of the world that is beautiful; and, third, because it tends to lead the pupil to look for beauty only at second hand, as in pictures of things rather than in the things themselves.
The first requisite in giving the pupil this first-hand view of the beauties of the world is that the teacher should acquire it himself. To this end, the book attempts to give a direct, non-technical analysis of the meaning and expression of the beautiful as seen in nature and the arts. It shows how and where to look for beauty, not alone in pictures and statues, but also in nature and in the domain of mechanics and of the arts that pertain to daily living.
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