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The following issues of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known contain editorial commentaries by Ellen Reiss discussing the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method and articles by New York teachers about their own classrooms and experiences, including detailed accounts of lessons, with questions and answers..
They describe the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method in the classroom--a method strikingly successful for three decades. In her commentaries Ms. Reiss describes richly the crucial place of Aesthetic Realism educational methodology and the underlying problems in the classroom which concern every educator and parent and which that no other method has solved.
 How Our Schools Can Really Succeed • September 12, 2012
The paper we publish here represents the greatest news there is for America’s schools, and the kindest. New York City elementary school teacher Lauren Phillips presented it last year at a public seminar titled “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Brings Out Every Child’s Ability to Learn—& Education Succeeds!” The title is TRUE. It has been shown to be so in real classrooms, on every educational level, in diverse and often suffering neighborhoods. There is no fact more important for education and the hoping, tumultuous minds of America’s children.
At the basis of the great Aesthetic Realism teaching method are these principles, stated by Eli Siegel: “The purpose of education is to like the world through knowing it,” and “The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.”
The lesson Ms. Phillips tells of is in earth science. And I’ll comment, in relation to the subject, on opposites that our nation’s citizens, educators, leaders, need to see clearly. Every American child and the earth, the land, of America are forms of the biggest opposites of all: self and world. There are two large ways the self of a child and the world need to join, be of each other. One is through knowing. As Ms. Phillips shows, in every child there is a tremendous longing to learn about the world, however stifled such a desire might seem. The Aesthetic Realism teaching method brings out, and meets, that desire.  more
 The Answer for America’s Schools / September 28, 2011
We are glad to publish an article of enormous importance. It is a paper that New York City teacher Zvia Ratz presented last year at the public seminar on education titled “Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, Students Choose Knowing—Not Anger & Bullying!” That title, as Ms. Ratz shows, is magnificently true.
She tells about teaching young men in East Harlem, whose life circumstances were profoundly unfair, many of whom were exceedingly angry, cynical, mean to each other, and uninterested in learning. And she tells how, through the Aesthetic Realism teaching method, these young men came to like mathematics, be excited about it, learn it well—and how they became much kinder. The success she describes is NEWS. The fact that she achieved it in her first and second years of teaching, makes the news even more meaningful.
Educators, parents, community leaders, government officials, fellow Americans: The great, kind, scientific, cultural Aesthetic Realism teaching method is the answer for American education—for any grade level, subject, any school anywhere! Teachers using it have made that fact clear in public seminars for years. And the instructors of the long-established Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Workshop can train our nation’s teachers as they have taught Ms. Ratz and so many others.  more
Needed by America's Schoolchildren! • September 15, 2010
In this issue we are publishing a tremendously important article by one of the most courageous and distinguished educators in America, Rosemary Plumstead. It was originally presented as a paper at the public seminar titled “The Answer to America’s Learning Crisis: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method.”
...Eli Siegel was the philosopher to show that the purpose of education—whether in biology, languages, history, computers, cooking, meteorology, sewing, physics—the purpose of all education is “to like the world through knowing it.” Mrs. Plumstead illustrates this and the other principles at the basis of the Aesthetic Realism teaching method as she describes a science lesson she taught, and describes too the response of her students. What happened in her classroom, how her students changed and succeeded, is what parents, teachers, communities, and young people themselves want desperately to have happen in the schools of America. more
Educational Method Is Poetic by Eli Siegel, serialized in 10 issues
In issues of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known # 1448 –1457 this lecture is serialized, together with commentaries by editor Ellen Reiss as well as articles by teachers, and more. This important series shows (1) how classroom education is related to things that usually seem separate from it, including love, economics, and friendship; and (2) how children can successfully learn, how teachers can effectively teach, how the growing difficulty learning and increasing anger in schools can be things of the past.
Education, Economics, & Kindness • September 16, 2009
This issue is about the great Aesthetic Realism teaching method. It's about what's needed for education in America to succeed. It is also about unions and what's needed for our economy to succeed.
We publish an article by New York City social studies teacher Christopher Balchin. It is taken from a paper he presented as part of a public seminar titled “Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, Knowledge Opposes Anger—and Students Learn!” Mr. Balchin grew up in Kent, England, and graduated from Oxford University. He now teaches at Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, and is a United Federation of Teachers union activist.
...The basis of this teaching method are three principles. And each, because it is true about the very self of every person, explains also that omnipresent human activity which seems so different from education: economics.
...We are honored to publish here three short poems by Eli Siegel. They have to do with ethics and history. They have humor and depth. They have the music of kindness. more
 For America's Schools • September 17, 2008
This issue is about the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method—the teaching method that succeeds, beautifully and kindly works. Through it, young people learn who had been unable to do so. Through it, students like learning; they grasp and remember the facts, whether about mathematics, a scientific concept, an event in history, the structure of a sentence. And it is the successful opponent to racial prejudice, bullying, unjust anger. It is what schools across America urgently need.
We print here a paper by a New York City teacher, which last fall was part of a public seminar titled “Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, Knowledge Opposes Anger—& Students Learn!”
Education, America, & Lois Mason • September 19, 2007
As a new school year begins, we publish an article on the teaching method that truly succeeds in having students learn—students of all ages and diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods; students, too, who felt they'd never learn, who felt both scornful and hopeless about education. This article on the great Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method is by Lois Mason....
Tragically, Lois Mason died this summer. She was one of America's most respected and beloved educators, and this issue of TRO is both an honoring of her and a presentation of that vibrant, practical, kind approach to education which she loved and which teachers on all levels are learning now.
Education, History, & Feelings / January 25, 2006
In this issue about education and history, we're honored to publish two poems by Eli Siegel. With them is a paper that New York City high school teacher Christopher Balchin presented last spring at the public seminar titled "The Answer to the Fury & Failure in America's Schools: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method!"
Education: The “Having-to-Do-With Other Things" / September 8, 2004
We are proud to publish five beautiful short poems by Eli Siegel, and also an article by elementary school teacher Barbara McClung, part of her paper in the public seminar titled: "The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Makes Every Subject Truly Anti-Prejudice—& Students Learn!”
That title is true. And there’s no more important news for education—and, really, for America—than the statement in it. As Mrs. McClung describes lessons she taught in her public school classroom in keeping with the standard third grade curriculum, we see these two huge facts: 1) There is a teaching method that can truly end the failure and agony in education! 2) Prejudice—that horrible thing which people have felt was unstoppable—not only is explained by Aesthetic Realism but, through the Aesthetic Realism teaching method, it actually ends!
The Biggest News about Education / March 24, 2004
How important is it that through the Aesthetic Realism teaching method, as students learn the subjects in the curriculum they become kinder to each other? The horrible ethnic prejudice and inter-cruelty ends. There is nothing more important for America.
"Education principally," Eli Siegel explained, "is the pleasant finding out of how things can help us know who we are as we see them." I think that is a beautiful, and great, and true definition. It is what happens in classrooms through the Aesthetic Realism method-including in some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, where young people's lives have really been bludgeoned by our viciously unjust economy.
This issue includes "To End the Crisis" by Avi Gvili, teacher of English, who writes:
"In the over six years I have been using the Aesthetic Realism teaching method, I've seen students who had all but given up on school and said they hated books, come really to like reading and writing-something they never imagined could happen." ... more
Every Child's True Intelligence / March 6, 2002 Includes teaching a lesson on evolution.
Kindness and Knowledge at School / August 30, 2000
Includes article by New York City science teacher Barbara McClung, from a public seminar of January 2000 titled "The Answer to the Fury and Failure in America's Schools: The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method."
The Teaching Method Children Deserve / March 22, 2000
Includes Lauren Phillips on teaching reading - and kindness - in the 2nd grade, East Harlem, NY.
What Education Can Be! / December 1, 1999
Includes teaching 8th grade science as presented in seminar titled "Through the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Students Choose Knowing the World, Not Fighting with It!"
The Most Important News about Education / September 1, 1999
Includes teaching American history.
The Beautiful Teaching Method / April 15, 1998 Includes teaching reading.
The Only Thing Big Enough / August 26, 1998
Includes the article by science teacher Rosemary Plumstead describing a lesson on the heart - how it is a oneness of power and delicacy - and more.
The Most Respected Teaching Method / December 16, 1998
Includes an essay by science teacher Bénédicte Caneill.
The Right of Every Child / December 17, 1997
Includes a commentary on the cause of learning difficulty and the cause of prejudice by Ellen Reiss; and article titled "Science, Earth, and Prejudice" by Barbara McClung.
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