Elliot W. EisnerThe 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… ▶371Humanity
Elliot W. EisnerLearning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.379Life
Elliot W. EisnerThe 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.369Truth
Elliot W. EisnerIf apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.261HopeTime
Elliot W. EisnerThe important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but … ▶299LifeThought
Elliot W. EisnerThe 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 h… ▶267HumanityLife
Elliot W. EisnerArt is literacy of the heart246Love
Elliot W. EisnerAll art forms employ some means through which images become real.192Thought
Elliot W. EisnerThe 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 Cognition and Curri… ▶2710Reflection
Elliot W. EisnerThe ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.248Politics
Elliot W. EisnerThe arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.173Humanity
Elliot W. EisnerThe limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.177Reflection
