Jerome Bruner Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

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

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Stories, Language

• 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.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, Children, Science

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

• 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.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Play, Adults

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

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Teaching, Cutting

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

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Teaching, Learning

• 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.

  Jerome Bruner

  Children, Teaching, Adults

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

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