Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.