Maxine Greene Quotes

• The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

  Maxine Greene

  Art, World, May

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• Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

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  Teaching, People, Helping

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

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  Thinking, Alive, Consciousness

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• A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

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  Teacher, May, Kind

  Maxine Greene “The Dialectic of Freedom”, Teachers College Press

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• At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to hear more on normally unheard frequencies, to become conscious of what daily routines have obscured, what habit and convention have suppressed.

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  Art, Habit, Conscious

  Maxine Greene (1995). “Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change”, Jossey-Bass

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• For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.

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  Children, Space, World

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• I am forever on the way

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  Learning, Forever, Way

  Maxine Greene (1995). “Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change”, Jossey-Bass

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• What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.

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  Opportunity, Ethnicity, America

  Maxine Greene (1995). “Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change”, Jossey-Bass

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• To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

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  Taken, Thinking, Moral

  Maxine Greene “Landscapes of Learning”, Teachers College Press

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• We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.

  Maxine Greene

  Stars, Prayer, Men

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