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 will to explore them".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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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".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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"Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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"Knowing and communicating are in their nature highly interdependent, indeed virtually inseparable".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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"Learning and thinking are always situated in a cultural setting and always dependent upon the utilization of cultural resources".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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"Old wine does not improve much for being poured into differently shaped bottles, even if the glass is clearer".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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"An educational enterprise that fails to take the risks involved becomes stagnant and eventually alienating".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)

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"Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits".

—Jerome Bruner (1915-2016)