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"The Beginnings of Music: The Opposites in the Flute" 

This is an article about what I've seen. Aesthetic Realism shows that the first opposites for a person are oneself and the world — and we're trying to do a good job with these opposites from birth....Click here to continue reading how Aesthetic Realism sees the beginnings of music.

 

Learn about Our "Understanding Marriage!" Class

Through studying the opposites of contempt and respect in the history of marriage and in their own lives including yesterday's incident at the breakfast table .... Read more here.

From coast to coast, marriages are suffering because of the failed economy. Women are speaking like this wife of twenty-five years, whose husband lost his job; she is quoted in an article in New York Newsday: "We fight all the time now" ... Click here to continue.  

"The Mix-up in Marriage about Coldness and Warmth"

A wife wrote in her diary January 15, 1869: "[My husband] told me during the evening that he loved me above all else in the world, and these words made me immeasurably happy"....Wives have longed to hear these words from their husbands —"I love you above all else in the world" and have felt they represent the warmth, the passion they need in what they see as an uncaring world. And then there comes to be increasing coldness, distrust of each other, and pain. The question is why? ...  Click here to continue reading

"They Do Not Have to Die"

There is a form of despair in students that has grown alarmingly in the last years: teenage suicide. Programs have been instituted in schools to teach students and teachers how to recognize the signs of a child thinking of suicide: listlessness, grades dropping, lack of interest, sudden angers, more and more isolation.

"Specialists agree," reports the New York Times (March 14, 1984), "that no single theory can account for all suicides and no single measure can prevent them."

This is not true. Eli Siegel has described what talks place in a person who wants to kill himself. He wrote in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, no. 229 ...  Click here to continue reading how Aesthetic Realism sees suicide in a young person.

Roosevelt Junior High School, West Orange, is one of the first schools in New Jersey to introduce a new educational approach, that of Aesthetic Realism, as it is taught by the 20th-century poet and critic, Eli Siegel... Click here to continue reading about the Aesthetic Realism teaching method.

Teachers' Workshop: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method

In these definitive principles, Eli Siegel, the greatest of educators, gave teachers the method, so longed for by students and teachers, to enable students to learn successfully and to replace prejudice with knowledge and good will: (1) "The purpose of education is to like the world" (Self and World, p. 5). (2) Contempt — "the lessening of what is different from oneself as a means of self-increase as one sees it" — is the greatest interference to learning and the fundamental cause of all injustice. (3) "The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites"... Click here to continue.

"Aesthetic Realism Shows Profit System Is Based on Contempt" By Barbara Allen & Arnold Perey

"We heard a report on CBS News Sunday Morning about what is happening to over 500 people who are going to be losing good paying jobs at the Kellogg cereal South Plant there in Battle Creek...." 

Larry Kranz Flute Pages: A major online resource for flutists

National Flute Association (United States)

The Flute Society of New South Wales, Australia

The Flute Network, San Bernadino, California

The Flute Network is a non-profit educational corporation serving flutists, flute teachers, and the people who love them.

 

(2) Poems by Ellen Reiss: "Welcome Your Confusion as a Guest;" "July is Relevantly Busy;" "New York Pigeons;" "Heard."

(3) The Web site "Friends of Aesthetic Realism—Countering the Lies" in which students and former students of Aesthetic Realism tell the truth about some of the meanest misrepresentations I've ever seen. It has wit and satire on it that show, also, how the ugly can make for humor.

(4) Links to sites created by persons whose first hand knowledge of Aesthetic Realism and its approach to art, literature, the economy, and life make them important authorities in today's cultural world.

(5) Critical writing by Ellen Reiss, the Chairman of Education of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, on Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson; on the Middle East, on Harry Potter as literature, on the meaning of idioms, and much more.

(6) Dr. Arnold Perey's site "An Anthropologist Meets Aesthetic Realism."

Barbara Allen and husband Dr. Arnold Perey at the American Library Association meeting in Chicago, IL where three new books (two shown here) were made public: Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea—a novel against racism, by Dr. Perey, Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism, edited and co-authored by Alice Bernstein, and Were They Equal? a traditional African tale against prejudice with Tortoise, Elephant, & Hippopotamus, as told and illustrated by Dr. Perey.