Aesthetic Education Should Not Be Limited within Education of Aesthetic Judgment

Nowadays in the academic circle, there is a tendency that aesthetic education is limited within education of aesthetic judgment, while the so-called aesthetic judgment refers to aesthetic contemplation, i.e. appreciating the beauty, which is due to the influence of aesthetic contemplationism in western aesthetics. Aesthetic education should include not only education of aesthetic judgment for how to appreciate beauty but also education of aesthetic creation for how to create beauty. Aesthetic creation focuses on creation of liberal art, also including creation of aesthetics in everyday life. Aesthetic education is not merely an epistemological issue, but also a practical one. The fragile situation of education of aesthetic creation should probably become a target for the reform of aesthetic education in the future.