Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Maxine Greene

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sarah Maxine Greene was an American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher. Described upon her death as "perhaps the most iconic and influential living figure associated with Teachers College, Columbia University", she was a pioneer for women in the field of philosophy of education, often being the sole woman presenter at educational philosophy conferences as well as being the first woman president of the Philosophy of Education Society in 1967. Additionally, she was the first woman to preside over the American Educational Research Association in 1981.

American - Philosopher | December 23, 1917 - May 29, 2014

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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

Maxine Greene

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.

Maxine Greene

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.

Maxine Greene

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

Maxine Greene

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

Maxine Greene

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

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.

Maxine Greene

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

Maxine Greene

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.

Maxine Greene

I am forever on the way

Maxine Greene

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Maxine Greene

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