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Authors
Elliot W. Eisner

"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."

Source : Elliot W. Eisner (2002). “The Arts and the Creation of Mind”, p.240, Yale University Press

Elliot W. Eisner

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