Education Quote by Jerome Bruner

“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 this problem before.”

Jerome Bruner

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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…

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Agency presupposes choice.

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The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through…

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Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

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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…

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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…

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The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

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"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

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Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate…

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Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

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