The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

- Maxine Greene

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predete…

- Maxine Greene

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

- Maxine Greene

I am forever on the way

- Maxine Greene

What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making i…

- Maxine Greene

At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard…

- Maxine Greene

We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an a…

- Maxine Greene

Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come autom…

- Maxine Greene

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

- Maxine Greene