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

The 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.

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 disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

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.

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