Jerome Bruner Quotes

Jerome Bruner — American Psychologist born on October 01, 1915,

Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist who has made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner is currently a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century... (wikipedia)

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

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.

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.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

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.

Jerome Bruner Quotes

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