Maxine Greene (1917- ), W. F. Russell Professor of Foundations of Education at Teachers College and visitor and patron of the Museum of Education, has served to guide the Museum’s programming with her emphasis upon "wide-awakeness," imagination, and social action. The Museum stages events in conjunction with the Maxine Greene Foundation for Social Imagination, the Arts & Education.
(Portrait: Museum of Education)
"To take a stranger’s point of view on everyday reality is to look inquiringly and wonderingly on the world in which one lives. It is like returning home from a long stay in some other place."