The Aesthetic Dimension of Education and Learning
Science and art, as dimensions of creative thought, are universal in nature and develop to the full in freedom. Science stimulates the cognitive processes of the individual involved and art the emotions, but the cognitive and emotional elements coexist in both. Through science it is possible to experience aesthetic enjoyment, and with art it is possible to develop knowledge unfettered. As a scientist myself, I consider essential for my research to combine a multidiscipline approach in consonance with the interrelation between scientific knowledge, ethics and aesthetics. It is at some extend, to be able to dream for achieving facts. It is combining the utopia with the reality. Never one can be at the expense of the other.
Let us not forget, as Octavio Paz points out, that poets nearly always reach the truth before others do. Neither should we forget the integrated knowledge of the cultured Renaissance person, where no clear line could be drawn between where the artist ended and the scientist began. Leonardo da Vinci illustrates this admirably. The great human being of science have been