Jerome Bruner
Psychologist
1915-10-01
Quotes by Jerome Bruner
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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. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you ought to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
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In sum, then, thinking about thinking has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
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In sum, then, thinking about thinking has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
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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. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you ought to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
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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 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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Any subject can be effectively taught in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
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