”Rugg's career virtually represents in miniature the panorama of educational ideologies that characterized twentieth-century curriculum reform in America: scientific curriculum making, child-centered education, and social reconstructionism.”, appraised by the curriculum historian, H. M Kliebard. It proved the significant place of Rugg in curriculum history. His special opinions that creative art experience, because of its integrity-producing power, was an indispensable vehicle for social integration, indicated a implication that we needed a theory which will embrace the coordinate concepts ”the social” and ”the individual”. The purpose of this article explored the thoughts of H. Rugg, including 1)introducing his life history ; 2)inquiring the four theories of aesthetics for analyzing Rugg's aesthetic interests; 3)acquainting the contemporary avant-garde artists whom Rugg associated; 4)understanding the thoughts of Rugg's creative self-expression.