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The hosts delve into the significance of aesthetic education, highlighting its incorporation of the arts and aesthetics to foster appreciation, understanding, and engagement with artistic and cultural expressions, focusing on sensory and emotional aspects. They also touch upon the beauty in subjects like math and science, concluding that aesthetic education is an exploration of beauty in terms of appreciation and creation.

Aesthetic education cultivates the mind to appreciate and create beauty. As a part of the school curriculum, it has by and large been neglected for various reasons. Now, a recent initiative by China’s Ministry of Education seeks to comprehensively enhance aesthetic education. How will the authorities, schools, and families go about achieving that goal? On the show: Laiming, Niu Honglin & Yushun