Humanity’s dependence on beauty for courage is innate but forgotten and must be re-taught

Evidence

The appeal for a renaissance of the appreciation of beauty—in the abstract and in its particular aspects—must not be allowed to falter. It is vital to our moral growth. It is a program of education. Perhaps it is truer to say that it is a program of reeducation, for we have always known, in our innermost recesses, our dependence upon beauty for the courage to face the problems of life. We have let ourselves forget. It is the duty of the interpreter to jog our memories. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 655

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapter claims that parks’ finest purpose is spiritual uplift via beauty (ch28) and that interpreters must reveal beauty as balanced order. — connects to: Deprivation of beauty depresses bodies as surely as material lack — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 344
• SEED: The ‘education as reeducation’ frame — that adults forget what they innately knew — is a strong interpretive-pedagogy thesis applicable to environmental interpretation generally.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Deprivation of beauty depresses bodies as surely as material lack #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 344