“Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.” — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share
