In these definitive principles, Eli Siegel gave teachers the method, so urgently needed, 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"; this magnificent principle is the means to understand every subject — reading, writing, mathematics, history, science — to see its beauty, and relate it to students' lives.  The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method is making possible unprecedented changes in New York classrooms: Violence and racism at last can end!  Students at every level learn — including reading — with an ease and vivid interest new in the history of education. 
 
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