Since 1925 New Orleans, Louisiana The Aesthetic Realism Method Dear Editor, There is an answer to the crisis in education and to the devastating effects on children's minds of the poverty so many are enduring today. Every day our economic system hurts the minds and lives of children. It is shameful that millions of young people in this wealthy country live in poverty. I despise our brutal economic system which sees people in terms of how much money can be gotten from them. For some persons to make huge profits and in doing so to force so many others, including children, to live in unbearable conditions, is a hideous violation of basic human rights and of human dignity, and it is sheer contempt.
Children deserve all the nourishment and care they can get.
And their minds deserve what only the Aesthetic Realism Method can give them. I have seen students, as young as six, furious and desolate, get new hope for their lives and happily learn. They see they do not have to use what they endure to hate everything. They see that with all they may be up against, it is better for them to know the world and be kind to other people. I represent many teachers throughout the New York City area who see every day in our classrooms the success of this method.