In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.
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
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
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
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 ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinve…
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 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…
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 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…
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 celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
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
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…
Art is literacy of the heart - Elliot W. Eisner
Art is literacy of the heart
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
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 …
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