Thought for the Day

[. . .] only the arts are forced to justify their place

in our schools. We never demand [. . .] justification

from the sciences, from history, or from math.

~ Ellen Winner

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Quoted from Monica Moses's Interview with Ellen Winner in American Craft, February/March 2019, pages 70-73

Ellen Winner, Ph.D. (Winner, a developmental research psychologist and professor at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, is the author, most recently, of the highly rated How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2018). She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which explores cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children, and adults.)

Ellen Winner Profiles at American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Harvard Graduate School of Education