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Maxine Greene was a prominent American philosopher and educator renowned for her contributions to aesthetic education and critical pedagogy. She was a key figure in the philosophy of education and her theories have had a substantial influence on educational approaches in the United States and internationally.

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Famous Maxine Greene Quotes

“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.”

Men Way Humans Seems Force Stars Prayer Human Beings Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Invisible Wilderness Melville

Author:Maxine Greene

“For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.”

World Children Asks Space Growing Possibility Becoming Like Her Predetermined

Author:Maxine Greene

“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.”

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Author:Maxine Greene

“What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.”

Wells Stories America Opportunity Crucial Diverse Fabric Provision Woven Ethnicity Membership Interpreting Braids

Book:Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

Source: Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

“I am forever on the way”

Way Forever Learning

Book:Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

Source: Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

“Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.”

People Helping Teaching Helping People

Author:Maxine Greene

“At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed.”

Art Form Habit Conscious Conventions Involvement Frequency Unheard Daily Routines

Book:Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

Source: Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

“To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.”

Thinking Moral Taken Position Granted Taken For Granted

Book:Landscapes of Learning

Source: Landscapes of Learning

“The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.”

World Humans May Has Beens Art Said Might Human Beings Changing The World

Author:Maxine Greene

“A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own”

Kind May Persons Young Teacher

Book:The Dialectic of Freedom

Source: The Dialectic of Freedom

About the Author

Born: December 23, 1917
Died: May 29, 2014
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 10

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