“Our classrooms ought to be nurturing and thoughtful and just all at once; they ought to pulsate with multiple conceptions of what it means to be human and alive…We must want our students to achieve friendship as each one stirs to wide awakeness, to imaginative action, and to renewed consciousness of possibility.”
Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination, 1995
“Only by extracting the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.”
John Dewey, Experience and Education, 1938
“We are free to change the world and start something new in it.”
Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic, 1972
“The chief subject matter of school, viewed culturally, is school itself. That is how most students experience it, and it determines what meaning they make of it.”
Jerome Bruner, Culture of Education, 1996
“Music cognition requires the individual to think about, experiment with, and control patterned sound.”
Elliot W. Eisner, The Kind of Schools We Need, 1998
“Context, as we have said before, determines the meaning of things. There is no such thing as the view from nowhere, or from everywhere for that matter.”
Shpancer, The Good Psychologist, 2010