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> [We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/we-are-storytelling-creatures-and-as-children-we-acquire-language-to/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

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## More by Jerome Bruner

> [In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/in-time-and-as-one-comes-to-benefit-from-experience-one-learns-that/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/education-must-be-not-only-a-transmission-of-culture-but-also-a/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Agency presupposes choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/agency-presupposes-choice/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/the-agentive-mind-is-not-only-active-in-nature-but-it-seeks-out/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/teaching-is-the-canny-art-of-intellectual-temptation/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/passion-like-discriminating-taste-grows-on-its-use-you-more-likely/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/it-is-sentimentalism-to-assume-that-the-teaching-of-life-can-always/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/the-notion-of-multiple-literacies-recognized-that-there-are-many-ways/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/the-essence-of-creativity-is-figuring-out-how-to-use-what-you-already/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> ["Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/thinking-about-thinking-has-to-be-a-principle-ingredient-of-any/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/organizing-facts-in-terms-of-principles-and-ideas-from-which-they-may/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/telling-others-about-oneself-is-no-simple-matter-it-depends-on-what/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/in-reference-to-right-answers-knowing-is-a-process-not-a-product/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/we-begin-with-the-hypothesis-that-any-subject-can-be-taught/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

> [Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-bruner/understanding-something-in-one-way-does-not-preclude-understanding-it/)

[Jerome Bruner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-bruner/)

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