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. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps… — 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
