Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these,… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
