Sunday, 7 October 2007

Lois Mason and the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method

There is an issue of "The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known" that I'd like everyone to know about. In it is a paper by educator Lois Mason, who studied with Eli Siegel. She was a social studies teacher, and one of the teachers of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method workshop. I learned so much from her, and I miss her. It is very important that the method she used and taught be known.

See Education, America, & Lois Mason

Money, America, & Ethics

If you haven't read Eli Siegel on economics then you've missed something big. Studying economics at Oxford I had the feeling economics was mainly statistical, exceedingly complicated, and cold. That suited me in a way, because I didn't like people very much, I'm sorry to say.

Eli Siegel's lectures and essay changed all that. He talks about economics as if people do matter a great deal. In fact, he saw the emotions of people as being a great force in the history and economics of the world. He said that ethics is a force. As a history teacher I have seen that he was right.

This link shows you firsthand what I'm talking about -- and explains, through the commentary by editor Ellen Reiss, things going on now in economics.

Money, America, & Ethics