The Role of Aesthetic Education in the Process of Cultural Development

The following presentation emphasizes the role of aesthetic education as an element that helps culture have depth, harmonious and ideal society.Aesthetic education helps people know how to manage emotions, create a common feeling (empathy), and serve as a foundation for strong emotions (sentiment) and common sense (mindset).Common sentiment is felt by people spontaneously (which Kant called a priori) and is considered "common sense" (according to John Locke).It is the natural and natural of human beings (in each era and society), durable, residual, "common sense" as the foundation for customs, customs, morality, and etiquette.It helps people sympathize, accept each other, rely on each other, protect each other, and develop each other.Without "common sense", there can be no family, community, society, nation.Therefore, the issue of managing emotions to be able to get a common feeling and especially a common feeling as "common sense" is a main purpose of cosmetology education.Since emotions are catalytic materials, seen through the body's natural reactions, especially the senses (the five senses), it can create a positive feeling of acceptance or negative rejection.Positive is when it creates pleasure, negative is when it creates discomfort, pain, and insecurity.From the way it appears, the effect as well as the form and emotions are classified, planned, and managed such as joy (joy), anger (anger), love (love), sorrow (hate)... Considered as a common, common feeling among people, they are emotional categories on which we rely to judge good and bad, good and evil, worthless, or worthless.The role of aesthetic education is associated with helping students know how to manage emotions for the right purpose, create a good feeling for themselves and others, and know how to feel and apply "common sense" in the right place and to the right audience.A culture (literally "turning into beautiful, humane") must be a harmonious, conscious, respectful society, and apply "common sense" to life.Since the purpose of this article is a suggestion to find the answer to the question of how to improve aesthetic education in the country, the commentary on the correlation between culture and aesthetics, between aesthetic education and national wisdom is only discussed in a general way.It is time for education and training agencies to directly participate in improving the role of aesthetic education.