Achievement Quote by Elliot W. Eisner

““Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.””

Elliot W. Eisner

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The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

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We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor…

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The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of…

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All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent…

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The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of…

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The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety…

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In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the…

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The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

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The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres.…

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The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them…

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The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the…

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