Elliot Eisner Quotes

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The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Elliot Eisner

The 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 humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.

Elliot Eisner

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

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

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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.

Elliot Eisner

Elliot Eisner

Elliot Eisner

Born: March 10, 1933

Died: January 10, 2014 (aged 80)

Bio: Elliot Wayne Eisner was a professor of Art and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and was one of the United States' leading academic minds.

Known for:

The Arts and the Creation of Mind (2002)
The educational imagination (1979)
The Enlightened Eye (1991)
Cognition and curriculum reconsidered (1994)
The kind of schools we need (1998)

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