Piaget's use of the equilibrium model to define knowledge results in a cybernetic conception of knowledge that cannot explain how knowledge becomes possible. The knowledge that behaviors apply discriminately must be acquired, and cannot be programed, and therefore cannot be learned. (FG)

An aesthetic object can have moral implications for the viewer; it can affect his moral deliberations and derivative conduct. The characteristic aesthetic forms of a society reflect a structure of feeling operant in that society's total being. (JD)

The popular arts in music, advertising, television, and movies reflect American culture as it is today, and the impact they make upon students can be an important factor in arousing aesthetic appreciation for art in all of its forms. (JD)