Quotes from Elliot W. Eisner

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

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.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

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.

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.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.