The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prev…

- Elliot W. Eisner

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

- Elliot W. Eisner

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

- Elliot W. Eisner

The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach in…

- Elliot W. Eisner

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

- Elliot W. Eisner

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

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

- Elliot W. Eisner

Art is literacy of the heart

- Elliot W. Eisner

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

- Elliot W. Eisner