The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
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. EisnerThe 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. EisnerSchools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
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 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