Elliot W. Eisner famous quotes

03-28-2025

Art is literacy of the heart
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Art #Heart #Literacy
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Art #Children #Answers
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Art #Real #Mean
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

#Individual #Architect #Process
If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Art #Apples #Language
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

#Art #Numbers #Vivid
Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Achievement #Brain #Mind
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

#Art #Children #Answers
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

#Appreciation #Art #Appreciate
The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Education #Art #Believe
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 #School #Profound
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

#Art #Feelings #Experience
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

#Art #Perspective #World
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Art #Children #Opportunity
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

#Art #Jobs #Children
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 #Art #Children
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 #School #Important
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
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

#Art #Surrender #Possibility
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

#Children #Acceptance #Opportunity
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Limits #Cognition #Language
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

#Art #Home #Challenges
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

#Kind #Casts #Fishes
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
-- Elliot W. Eisner

#Art #Differences #Perception

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