I am going to tell about a class I gave to 9th grade students on Environmental Science. At times two students would exchange threatening words clear across the classroom. They were quick to insult and be insulted, making the atmosphere in the classroom often tense. First in Aesthetic Realism consultations, and later in classes with Eli Siegel, I learned the cause of my anger and why it could even be so attractive. Yes, I can.
Most people can.
Yes, I have. What I learned and continue to learn in Aesthetic Realism classes taught by Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, has made me a happy person and a useful teacher. As students in my science classes see through study of the atom, or the formation of ozone that the world, with all the unjust things that take place in it, has a structure of opposites that is beautiful, they learn happily and their anger with things and people changes. As part of the Environmental Science curriculum, for example, we study biomes areas of the world that are characterized by their vegetation, like the tundra where, because of intense cold, there are no trees and the vegetation consists of short grasses and shrubs. The tundra In the tropical rain forest, however, the temperature is very high and the vegetation lush, due to the copious amounts of rain the area receives.