Jerome Bruner Quotes

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• Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often…
• The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
• In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as…
• 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 used…
• We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on…
• We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.
• The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this…
• Agency presupposes choice.
• The fish will be the last to discover water.
• The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action,…
• The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.
• We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to…
• Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like
• One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

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