The educational value of art lies in promoting people's spiritual realm, making people enter the realm beyond people's opinions, fame and fortune, and obtaining the ultimate happiness. It is emotional education, whose function is to cultivate people's feelings, make people's feelings change from weak to strong, from thin to thick, and give people a driving force for noble behavior. Aesthetic education plays an important role in people's ability, because beauty is universal and transcendent. Aesthetic education can also make up for the conceptual, abstract and mechanical nature of science and make life rich and meaningful. Aesthetic education is free, progressive and universal, which can soothe people's emotions, make people's hearts pure and noble, and give people a warm spiritual home.

On the role of art education from the perspective of educational philosophy

Cai Yuanpei believes that the world has two aspects: the phenomenal world and the physical world. The phenomenon world is the material world, and the material world is the spiritual world, which is the final destination and refuge of human psychology and spirit. The fundamental difference between human beings and other animals is that people not only live in the material world and have material needs, but also have psychological, emotional and spiritual worlds and a desire for soul dependence. Aesthetic education is the way to realize world outlook education and reach the spiritual world, which is determined by the characteristics of aesthetic education. Everyone has feelings of love, evil, fear, anger, sorrow and joy, which change with life and death, fortunes and interests. However, beauty is not. Aesthetic feeling has the characteristics of non-utility, detachment and universality. People never have the idea of possession when facing the object of beauty. Psychological beauty is pure, free from distractions, and everyone faces the object of beauty. So they can forget the difference between people and me, merge with beauty and enter the material world.

From the perspective of education, the significance of aesthetic education to life lies in improving people's spiritual realm, making people enter a realm beyond fame, wealth, personal views and interests, making people experience the true meaning of life and get the ultimate happiness of life.

Cai Yuanpei believes that aesthetic education can also cultivate a quiet and strong spirit. There are two kinds of aesthetic feeling, one is elegant beauty, the other is sublime beauty, calm and indifferent, super interesting, forgetting the boundary between people and me. For example, in Youmingsheng, people didn't think of logging and making machines at first; Music lovers are always happy with others; Such a transcendental and universal mentality is accustomed to self-restraint. What despicable temptation can disturb him? Sublime beauty can be divided into two categories: greatness and strength; Thinking about the star world and comparing geological ages, we can't help but be surprised at the obscurity of individuals; Describing the volcanic eruption and the cross-flow of floods, we can't help but sigh the fragility of manpower; But once I am induced by aesthetic feeling, I wander in the object unconsciously, so the greatness of the object is my greatness; The power of the object is my power; I am used to exercising in this state of mind. What else in the world can scare him?