What Does It Mean to Be Free?

“WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE?” is the crucial subject of the Learning to Like the World class which will take place on Saturday, April 15, 11 AM to 12:15 PM for boys and girls ages 5 through 12.  This important class is based on this principle, stated by Eli Siegel, American poet and critic and founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism:  “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.”  Boys and girls will see freedom in a new way as teachers Barbara Allen and Robert Murphy talk about and demonstrate these important sentences by Ellen Reiss, Chairman of Education:

“A tremendous matter in the life of a child is freedom and order.  A child—Paul—wants both; and wants them at the same time, as one.  If he doesn’t see that they can be one, he will suffer….Paul wants—how passionately he wants—to be shown that a leaf is free and orderly at once as it blows in the wind yet is attached efficiently to a tree; that his own hand is free and orderly—the fingers can move freely because the hand is organized; that in dancing there is proud pleasure because you let go as your steps have more structure than usual. ” (The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #927)

Through lively activities, young people attending will see how freedom and order are together in many different ways—for example, in baseball or a scientific experiment.  And they’ll be learning how the very technique of art—for instance, dance–has the answer to their own question of how to be free through being orderly, exact.  As they see this, they feel more sure that they can put together these very same opposites in themselves. They’ll feel happier, prouder, and yes, more free!











When: Sat., Apr. 19, 2014 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $8.00
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“WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE?” is the crucial subject of the Learning to Like the World class which will take place on Saturday, April 15, 11 AM to 12:15 PM for boys and girls ages 5 through 12.  This important class is based on this principle, stated by Eli Siegel, American poet and critic and founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism:  “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.”  Boys and girls will see freedom in a new way as teachers Barbara Allen and Robert Murphy talk about and demonstrate these important sentences by Ellen Reiss, Chairman of Education:

“A tremendous matter in the life of a child is freedom and order.  A child—Paul—wants both; and wants them at the same time, as one.  If he doesn’t see that they can be one, he will suffer….Paul wants—how passionately he wants—to be shown that a leaf is free and orderly at once as it blows in the wind yet is attached efficiently to a tree; that his own hand is free and orderly—the fingers can move freely because the hand is organized; that in dancing there is proud pleasure because you let go as your steps have more structure than usual. ” (The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #927)

Through lively activities, young people attending will see how freedom and order are together in many different ways—for example, in baseball or a scientific experiment.  And they’ll be learning how the very technique of art—for instance, dance–has the answer to their own question of how to be free through being orderly, exact.  As they see this, they feel more sure that they can put together these very same opposites in themselves. They’ll feel happier, prouder, and yes, more free!

Buy tickets/get more info now