Aesthetics is the philosophy of art (including poetry and literature), and philosophy can be defined as a way of reflecting and clarifying ordinary, everyday thoughts and feelings that people find hard to put into words. One such ordinary thought is the well-known fact that words have a larger, more expansive meaning in poetry than they do in daily life. In the enlarged meaning of words used in poetry, all kinds of secondary meanings of the words spontaneously spring to mind. In this article, the author discusses the aesthetic theory of a German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Introducing Kant to K-12 school students raises important art education policy issues concerning the feasibility of philosophical aesthetics in the school art curriculum. Although conceptually challenging (and Kant can certainly claim top honors in that respect), the author appeals for making philosophy of art a regular part of art education. To make this work in an actual classroom situation, philosophers of art should be invited (and if invited, should accept the invitation) to develop specific class plans, and these individual class plans should be collated and made available to anyone that is teaching art in the schools. (Contains 1 note.)