Papers on The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method

This greatly successful, time-tested method, which is used by educators who teach many grade levels and subjects, is based on the following principles, stated by Mr. Siegel:

The purpose of education is to like the world through knowing it."

"The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness
of opposites."

The greatest interference with learning is contempt, "the addition to self through the lessening of something else."

I was selected as an Educator of Excellence by the New York State English Council, and have given workshops at that organization's annual conferences, as well as conventions of the National Council of Teachers of English. To find out about the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, which is studied in bi-weekly workshops taught by consultants with All For Education--Barbara Allen, Patricia Martone, Lois Mason, Rosemary Plumstead and Arnold Perey--click here.

Papers I've Written

Papers by Others

Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method,
Students Choose Knowing the World,

Not Fighting with It
about reading difficulty and form-changing suffixes

Interest Wins, Cynicism Loses—
in Students and Teachers
about adjectives

Poetry As Justice: Through the Aesthetic Realism

Teaching Method, Aesthetics Defeats Contempt
about how the technique of poetry counters the

horrors of prejudice, with a discussion of "Strange Meeting"—Wilfred Owen's great poem of World War I

The Success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method: Liking the World versus Contempt
about satire, using Nikolai Gogol's
short story "The Nose"

The Failure Can End

by science teacher and Aesthetic Realism Consultant

Rosemary Plumstead about the aesthetics
of the human heart

Through the Study of Viruses, Prejudice Is Opposed

by science teacher Sally Ross

about viruses, which put together power and delicacy,
large and small

The Answer to the Failure

by elementary school teacher Lauren Phillips

about reading and listening comprehension

Science, Earth, and Prejudice

by teacher of science and elementary school
Barbara McClung about earth science,
the contour map, and seeing people justly

Knowledge Opposes Anger, & Students Learn

Rosemary Plumstead speaks about  how trees put together contraction and expansion, individuality and relation, and more!