Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
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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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Music is a passion of mine. I'm always listening, always learning.
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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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I'm really good with fighting with my feet.
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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.