The theory of aesthetic education was put forward by Schiller.

Schiller put forward the concept of "aesthetic education" for the first time, and systematically expounded the essence, characteristics and social functions of aesthetic education, which is the first systematic aesthetic education work.

Bennett Ramo, a famous American music educator, put forward the concept of "comprehensive aesthetic education" in his book Philosophy of Music Education.

He believes that "every art has its own main elements, and there are melody, harmony and rhythm in music; There are colors, lines and textures in painting; There are metaphors, images, rhythms and so on in poetry. Every art can borrow elements from other arts and assimilate with its own field, while many arts can borrow elements from non-art circles and use them artistically to turn them into performance materials. "

Aesthetic education:

Just as "aesthetics" and "art" are not always the same concepts in the history of aesthetics, "aesthetic education" and "art education" are not always the same concepts in the history of education.

Originally, the so-called aesthetic education (aesthetic education) refers to achieving a perfect and harmonious personality and perfect aesthetic virtue as human ideals through aesthetic activities and the subsequent cultivation of aesthetic ability, which belongs to moral education in a broad sense.

In this case, as long as art is recognized as the representative of aesthetic value and even beautiful culture, aesthetic education can be carried out through art, so that aesthetic education can be truly realized as art education.

In ancient Greece, the ideal of ethical beauty was widely advocated as the goal of cultivating people, and the courses of family education and school education for free people were also organized according to the goal of integrity and harmony.

But here, beauty and art generally don't cover each other, especially in Plato's thought. Love of beauty (Ф l λ ο κ α λ ο s) and love of knowledge (Ф l λ ο σ φ1α) are the ways to reach the ultimate truth in the world, while art, because it is far away from ideas, has the nature of imitation and appeals to human feelings.

In his Republic, all artists except some musicians are in danger of being exiled. In short, from this perspective, ethical beauty, even if it is the concept of aesthetic education, can not be the concept of art education.