Maxine Greene famous quotes

03-29-2025

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 frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed.
-- Maxine Greene

#Art #Habit #Conscious
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
-- Maxine Greene

#Teacher #May #Kind
Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.
-- Maxine Greene

#Teaching #People #Helping
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.
-- Maxine Greene

#Taken #Thinking #Moral
I am forever on the way
-- Maxine Greene

#Learning #Forever #Way
Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, thereâ€™s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesnâ€™t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
-- Maxine Greene

#Thinking #Alive #Consciousness
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 predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.
-- Maxine Greene

#Children #Space #Growing
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 archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.
-- Maxine Greene

#Stars #Prayer #Men
The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.
-- Maxine Greene

#Art #May #Might
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.
-- Maxine Greene

#Opportunity #Ethnicity #America

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