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“The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.”

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Elliot W. Eisner

Elliot W. Eisner was an influential educational theorist and scholar, known for his work in the field of educational evaluation. Born on March 10, 1933, and passing away on January 10, 2014, Eisner is renowned for his research on the role of assessment and the arts in education. more

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“The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.”

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“If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.”

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Book:Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner

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“The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.”

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“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.”

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“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.”

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

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

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“The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.”

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“In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.”