The role of aesthetic education in overall development of students

Abstract

Every student needs planned, aesthetic education in order to influence the experiencing, feeling and enjoying of beautiful things as a counterbalance to our currently rationalized world. Since the contemporary educational institutions strives for the development of professional knowledge and skills on the basis of intellectual actions, while (at the same time) neglecting other dimensions of the student's personality (emotions, feelings, etc.), it is one of the most important tasks of the education of children and young people to develop the ability to enjoy art and beauty, and in one's inner and outer life to act in accordance with a sense of proportion, harmony and beauty. The purpose of the article is to highlight the role of aesthetic education in the development of the personality as a whole, to shed light on the aims of aesthetic education and to study the impact of aesthetic environment on learning attitude of the students.