Dictionary of British Education
A term increasingly used in discussions of a balanced curriculum to indicate those subjects or areas of experience by means of which a pupil is introduced to the world of beauty (e.g.
art, music, literature). The basis for this distinction dates back to the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). An opposite point of view was taken in England by William Morris and John Ruskin, who did not wish to accept the separation of art and morality.
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