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Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

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

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

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

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

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

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

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch..

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

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