Their Own Education Quotes by Elliot W. Eisner

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• Art is literacy of the heart
• If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
• The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the…
• The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls…
• All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
• The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
• The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The…
• The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to…
• The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
• The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to…
• Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
• The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines…

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