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What exactly is "aesthetic education"?

Aesthetic education, also known as aesthetic education or aesthetic education, it is the inevitable result of the development of human civilization, but also an important aspect of the construction of human beings themselves, aesthetic education through a variety of arts and the natural world and social life of the beautiful things to carry out, it is the same as the moral education, intellectual education, the main mainly involved in the spiritual life of people, on the aesthetic education, people have had a lot of different times of the exposition of the eighteenth century German Enlightenment period aesthetician in the "aesthetic education book brief" pointed out that: "from the beautiful things to find beauty, this is the task of aesthetic education." Cai Yuanpei, who was the first to create aesthetic education in China's modern educational history, explained aesthetic education as follows, "Everyone has feelings, but not all have great and noble behaviors, which is due to the weakness of the emotional driving force. To turn weak into strong, turn thin into thick, to be cultivated. The instrument of cultivation is the object of beauty; the effect of cultivation is called aesthetic education." Sukhomlinsky, the famous contemporary Soviet educator, put it even more clearly, "Beauty is a powerful source of moral purity, spiritual enrichment and physical integrity. The most important task of aesthetic education is: to teach children to see the nobility of spirit, goodness and sincerity through the beauty of the world around them and the beauty of human relationships, and to establish their own qualities of beauty on this basis."