The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
All art forms employ some means through which images become real. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres.… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
