Can You Be Kind & Proud As You Think About Money?

Teachers of the monthly “Learning to Like the World” class Barbara Allen and Robert Murphy will talk about and illustrate these wonderful sentences by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, from his book Children’s Guide to Parents & Other Matters:

“Money is wonderful (and it isn’t the only thing that’s wonderful). Just think: it can buy pigs and books and grass by the yard and tablecloths and theatre tickets and sugar and old books and songs and cheese and music—and what else, what else?…Money is a way of having for ourselves objects which couldn’t have been if it wasn’t either for the ground—that is, nature—or for what other people have done. Plainly, if we get what other people made, we have to think we have a right to it. The first step in having a right to what other people have made is to think about it.”

Every child attending will have a much larger feeling of respect for the things money can buy—from books to skateboards—and for the people who produced them. Boys and girls will see how, for example, a tablet is inseparable from the real human beings with feelings and thoughts whose labor enabled it to be. And a real human being—perhaps a parent—bought that object, and his or her work went into the purchasing of it. Money and the objects money can buy will take on new meaning for all the children attending this exciting class. They will be deeper, also, about their own parents!











When: Sat., Feb. 21, 2015 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $8
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Teachers of the monthly “Learning to Like the World” class Barbara Allen and Robert Murphy will talk about and illustrate these wonderful sentences by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, from his book Children’s Guide to Parents & Other Matters:

“Money is wonderful (and it isn’t the only thing that’s wonderful). Just think: it can buy pigs and books and grass by the yard and tablecloths and theatre tickets and sugar and old books and songs and cheese and music—and what else, what else?…Money is a way of having for ourselves objects which couldn’t have been if it wasn’t either for the ground—that is, nature—or for what other people have done. Plainly, if we get what other people made, we have to think we have a right to it. The first step in having a right to what other people have made is to think about it.”

Every child attending will have a much larger feeling of respect for the things money can buy—from books to skateboards—and for the people who produced them. Boys and girls will see how, for example, a tablet is inseparable from the real human beings with feelings and thoughts whose labor enabled it to be. And a real human being—perhaps a parent—bought that object, and his or her work went into the purchasing of it. Money and the objects money can buy will take on new meaning for all the children attending this exciting class. They will be deeper, also, about their own parents!

Buy tickets/get more info now