Jerome Bruner Quotes

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• Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will…
• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.…
• Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
• Knowledge is justified belief.
• Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
• "Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
• Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
• We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
• The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
• Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
• We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
• Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
• Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
• Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in…
• In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of…
• Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
• There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real…
• Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.
• Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of…
• We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

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