I am for tradition actually especially in defence of the chronological rather that the thematic teaching of history. Unlike Derrida's relativism, students need to learn the facts in context and when they occured and happened in its own respective eras rather being lumped together willy-nilly. For instance, so many would argue that Delacroix was the first modern or before him Caravaggio, when he started using prostitutes and murderers as models for his art or Velasques, the court painter who painted empty space because the Spanish royal family was impoverished and sold the contents of their palaces. Oh come on...
I must say that I support that students need to learn the discipline of their art, for writers they need to learn the basics of grammar, idioms and mitre or cadenza, knowing your octave from an overture etc in music before breaking the rules. I have to learn what the rules are before I can break them. I so dislike this 'everything goes' mentality.
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Sources of sublimated experience:
-An exciting soccer game or when my team lost makes me cry (oh, the pathos of it).
-seeing a beautiful sunset/landscape-storm at sea/tall cliffs/view from a skyscraper, a view of earth in space as you look through the porthole.
-a circus show with perfect performances
-any experience with a beloved during courtship
-fantastically cooked meal
-a picture of virgin mary as a tomato sauce blot on a sandwich
-lots more, almost anything non-art can be perfectly sublime if you know where, how and when to look.
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