"The writing is reader-friendly, despite the fact that the author is addressing complex philosophical and educational policy issues." -- Journal of Aesthetic Education "D'Olimpio offers a deep investigation into the role and value of aesthetic education introducing the reader to multiple defenses for its value in the K-12 curriculum including those made by Elliot Eisner and Maxine Greene. She successfully argues that the intrinsic value of the aesthetic experience is fundamental to the well-being and overall education of students and that including aesthetic education into the curriculum does not require any further extrinsic reasons." --Holly C. Fairbank, Professor of Aesthetic Education and Executive Director, The Maxine Greene Institute, USA "Advocates of arts education tend to speak in platitudes. This book moves firmly beyond the platitudes by providing a rigorous defence of the necessity of aesthetic education in terms of both its intrinsic value and extrinsic benefits. Written with gusto and persuasion, this work serves both as a formidable philosophical treatise and an inspired manifesto. I particularly recommend Chapter 7 on the complex relationship between aesthetics and ethics.

A delightful read." --Kristján Kristjánsson, Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK.