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 to explore them.

  Jerome Bruner

  Views, Alternatives, World

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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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  Creativity, Thinking, Order

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• We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

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  Children, Stories, Language

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• Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

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  Facts, Learners

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• Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

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  Joy, Information, Able

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”

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• In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

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  Knowing, Answers, Process

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Thinking

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• Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

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  Children, Teaching, Cutting

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• The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

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  Music, Age, Foundation

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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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 this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

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  Views, Mind, Stories

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• 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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  Education, Children, Science

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

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  Children, Play, Adults

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• Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Understanding

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

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  Understanding, Way, Structure

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

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  Children, Teaching, Learning

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• The fish will be the last to discover water.

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  Inspirational, Life, Water

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.45, Harvard University Press

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• Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Literature

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.152, Harvard University Press

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• Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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  Art, Teaching, Learning

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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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 to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

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  Children, Teaching, Adults

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• 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 badly as one feared.

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  Benefits, Anticipation, Turns

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

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  Education, School, Laziness

  The Process of Education (p. 14)

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• Knowledge is justified belief.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Literature

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• 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 meanings of a work of art.

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  Art, Real, Effort

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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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 used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

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  Way, Becoming, Literacy

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• We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

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  Self, Needs, Agents

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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