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Elliot W. Eisner - From the Art category:
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Children category:
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Children category:
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 into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Children category:
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Children category:
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Critics category:
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Education category:
The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Education category:
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. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Education category:
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Experience category:
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 capable of feeling. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Importance category:
The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Intellect category:
Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Interpretation category:
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)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Language category:
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Perception category:
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Possibilities category:
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated
possibilities of the work as it unfolds. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Reality category:
All art forms employ some means through which images become real. (Elliot W. Eisner)
Elliot W. Eisner - From the Words category:
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. (Elliot W. Eisner)
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