Elliot Eisner posited valuable lessons or benefits that educatio can learn from arts and he summarized these into SEVEN as follows:

1.Form and content cannot be separated. How something is said or done shapes the content of experience. In education, how something is taught, how curricula are organized , and how schools are designed impact upon what students will learn. These “side effects” may be the real main effects of practice. 

2. Everything interacts; there is no content without form and no form without content. When the content of a form is changed, so too, is the form altered. Form and content are like two sides of a coin. 

3. Nuance matters. To the extent to which teaching is an art, attention to nuance is critical. It can also be said that the aesthetic lives in the details that the maker can shape in the course of creation. How a word is spoken, how a gesture is made, how a line is written, and how a melody is played, all affect the character of the whole. All depend upon the modulation of the nuances that constitute the act. 

 4. Surprise is not to be seen as an intruder in      the process of inquiry, but

as a part of the rewards one reaps when working artistically. No

surprise, no discovery, no progress. Educators should not resist

surprise, but create the conditions to make it happen. It is one of the

most powerful sources of intrinsic satisfaction.

   5. Slowing down perception is the most promising way to see what is

actually there. It is true that we have certain words to designate high

levels of intelligence. We describe somebody as being swift, or bright,

or sharp, or fast on the pickup. Speed in its swift state is a descriptor

for those we call smart. Yet one of the qualities we ought to be

promoting in our schools is a slowing down perception: the ability to

take one’s time, to smell the flowers, to really perceive in the

Deweyan sense, and not merely to recognize what one looks at.

6. The limits of language are not the limits of cognition. We know more

than we can tell. In common terms, literacy refers essentially to the

ability to read and to write. But literacy can be re-conceptualized as

the creation and use of a form of representation that will enable one to

create meaning-- meaning that will not take the impression of

language in its conventional form. In addition, literacy is associated

with high level forms of cognition. We tend to think that in order to

know, one has to be able to say. However, as Polanyi (1969) reminds

us, we know more than we can tell.

7. Somatic experience is one of the most important indicators that

someone has gotten it right. Related to the multiple ways in which we

represent the world through our multiple forms of literacy is the way in

which we come to know the world through the entailments of our

body. Sometimes one knows a process or an event through one’s

Skin.