"In the end the experiment failed... but the experience of thinking a project through and trying it out was an educational success. What the teacher needs to focus on is how students need to think in order to get the results they did and what they learned as a result. In assessment and evaluation we need to penetrate the surface features of activity to get at what lies beneath it. As long as the visual arts are regarded as occasions for students to make things for the refrigerator door, they will be marginal in our schools, and if they are taught as if they were simple occasions for making things for the refrigerator door, they should be marginal."
--Elliot W. Eisner, "The Arts and the Creation of Mind"
I don't think I could have said it better-- but somehow I feel as though I've said almost exactly the same time somewhere before....
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