Maxine Greene

"The role of the teacher is not to be the depositor of facts into the passive student, but to be the co-explorer with the student in the exciting, lifelong search for truth and meaning."

"Imagination is the only weapon against reality."

"Teaching is not a purely technical, instrumental activity. Teaching is a deeply human activity."

"We must awaken to our freedom and our responsibility to create the world we want."

"Art and imagination are essential to what it means to be human."

"The purpose of education is not to produce robots, but to awaken human possibility."

"We are always in the process of becoming. Nothing is ever finished."

"Teaching, real teaching, is a kind of love."

"Social injustice and inequality breed the most terrible despair."

"We must educate people to think for themselves, not to think as we do."

"Freedom is not a given; it must be continually created and recreated."

"The human being is always a work in progress, never fully determined."

"The greatest threat to freedom is passivity and indifference."

"Imagination is the capacity to imagine that things could be otherwise."

"We are responsible for creating meaning in our lives and in our world."

"Teaching requires a deep commitment to human equality and social justice."

"The examined life is the only one worth living."

"Art enables us to see beyond the ordinary, to imagine otherwise."

"We must cultivate a sense of wonder about the world and ourselves."

"Education is the practice of freedom."

"Loneliness is one of the most terrible conditions of human existence."

"We create ourselves through our choices and actions."

"The human imagination is the source of all hope."

"Peace requires justice; justice requires compassion."

"We are all philosophers, even if we do not realize it."

"Literature opens doors to worlds we never knew existed."

"The capacity to think is what makes us human."

"Hope is a kind of permanent dissatisfaction."

"We must dare to imagine a better world."

"Beauty exists in the eye of the beholder, in the heart of the observer."