AESTHETICS AND POVERTY

I'm trying to separate aesthetics from practicality. To have poor kids who can hold their own with rich kids might require lots of controls ensuring: nutritional equity (not equality); early education equity, and equity in self worth. The aesthetics of living in a shack or shanty town ought not to hinder mental development. Moreover, appropriate education should enable young residents of shacks and shanties to manage and benefit from the aesthetics of those places.