Top 35 Jerome Bruner Quotes
#1. Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.
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#5. We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
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#6. Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
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#7. Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
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#8. 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 more conventional stimuli.
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#9. In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
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#10. 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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#11. 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 loss of human memory.
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#12. 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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#14. We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
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#20. Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one's experiences.
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#21. The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
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#22. Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
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#23. 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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#24. 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.
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#25. We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
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#26. One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
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#27. 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 later ones.
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#28. 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 gets from traditionalist writings in education ... But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
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#32. In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
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