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We Run, Sit, & Think–How Can We Make Sense of Motion & Rest?

Motion and rest affect every person—and are often turbulently in young people. An eight-year-old can sit for an hour observing an ant colony as he sees those small remarkable creatures carrying sand three times their weight building intricate tunnels. But later, that same boy can be told by an exasperated teacher—“Jack, sit down! I told you four times, you’re disturbing the class!”

“The Learning to Like the World class of Saturday, April 21st is for young people ages 5-12. This event is based on Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel. Children attending will be delighted as they see some of the great practicality of this principle stated by Mr. Siegel: “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.” In the class, the children will have a great time as Aesthetic Realism consultants Barbara Allen and Robert Murphy take up and illustrate these sentences from An “Aesthetic Realism Manifesto about Education”:
“Do children want only to be active, or do they want to have a oneness of rest and motion? Can every object show them how to do this? If a child running around the classroom is asked to look out the window, and is asked, “Are clouds both at rest and motion? Is that how you want to be?”—will that question have meaning for him or her? It will.”

There will be lively demonstrations of how rest and motion are together in the world. Children will have a wonderful time, and those opposites will be more composed in everyone present!











When: Sat., Apr. 21, 2018 at 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $8
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Motion and rest affect every person—and are often turbulently in young people. An eight-year-old can sit for an hour observing an ant colony as he sees those small remarkable creatures carrying sand three times their weight building intricate tunnels. But later, that same boy can be told by an exasperated teacher—“Jack, sit down! I told you four times, you’re disturbing the class!”

“The Learning to Like the World class of Saturday, April 21st is for young people ages 5-12. This event is based on Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel. Children attending will be delighted as they see some of the great practicality of this principle stated by Mr. Siegel: “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.” In the class, the children will have a great time as Aesthetic Realism consultants Barbara Allen and Robert Murphy take up and illustrate these sentences from An “Aesthetic Realism Manifesto about Education”:
“Do children want only to be active, or do they want to have a oneness of rest and motion? Can every object show them how to do this? If a child running around the classroom is asked to look out the window, and is asked, “Are clouds both at rest and motion? Is that how you want to be?”—will that question have meaning for him or her? It will.”

There will be lively demonstrations of how rest and motion are together in the world. Children will have a wonderful time, and those opposites will be more composed in everyone present!

Buy tickets/get more info now