The capacity for empathy is important to the human community, and the art classroom provides a unique environment in which this capacity can be developed. Connections to objects of art and material culture, as forged by individual students and also shared with classmates, can be as empathic as they are meaningful. An openness to others and their…

In teaching we develop a language of practice related to the student's discipleship toward wholeness, which is also a depth hermeneutic or interpretation of his self-formative process. In short, when we truly teach art, we are mediating body-mind integration and self-actualization in and through art. (Author)

Author directs his attention to the question of why art should be taught in the public schools and the necessity of creating an antienvironment. (RK)

Discussed "visually handicapped", the function of the art teacher with regard to that category of deprivation, and the relationship of the art teacher to all children. (Author/RK)

Article makes suggestions for enlightening students in their awareness of the environment. (RK)

Young people need to understand how we use our senses to relate to our world and how the arts and technology heighten sensory perception. A participatory exhibition involving art, music, science, and technology designed for elementary and secondary students by the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, is described. (RM)