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Aesthetic education aims to enhance the learner’s ability to comprehend the meanings of various different modes of expression; that is, to understand and interact with figures full of meaning. Everything in the world has the potential to be viewed as a producer of such meanings, as a figure full of meanings or, put otherwise, as an aesthetical experience. The arts, however, are exactly those forms of intentional acts of figure creation that allow such meanings to emerge. As a result, learning of the arts is aesthetic education’s pathway to knowledge.

Aesthetic education and its goals may best be served by comprehensive arts education programs. Such programs, focusing on the unique character of the arts as meaning-givers, permit the cultivation of students’ ability to develop complete aesthetic responses, while, concurrently, revealing the complex (experiential-emotional and cognitive) nature of aesthetic perception overall.

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