Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life. Elliot W. Eisner More Quotes by Elliot W. Eisner More Quotes From Elliot W. Eisner The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. Elliot W. Eisner answers children art The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds. Elliot W. Eisner teacher children art 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 aim-of-education architect individual Art is literacy of the heart Elliot W. Eisner literacy heart art 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 perspective world art The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch. Elliot W. Eisner fishes turns kind The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. 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 education attitude school 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 jobs children art 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 answers children art 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 learning important school 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 experience feelings art 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 the limits of our cognition. Elliot W. Eisner vivid numbers art All art forms employ some means through which images become real. Elliot W. Eisner real mean art 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 education profound school The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. Elliot W. Eisner cognition language limits The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties. Elliot W. Eisner differences perception art If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core. Elliot W. Eisner apples language art Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement. Elliot W. Eisner achievement mind brain 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 possibility surrender art The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance. Elliot W. Eisner acceptance opportunity children
