Jerome Bruner

Professions :

Psychologist

Born :

October 1, 1915

Died :

June 5, 2016

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

creativity order thinking

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for t... by Jerome Bruner

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

learners facts

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.

alternatives views world

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

language stories children

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any... by Jerome Bruner

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

education inspirational thinking

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

information able joy

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any ag... by Jerome Bruner

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

foundation music age

The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

views stories mind

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.

education science children

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's c... by Jerome Bruner

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

cutting teaching children

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a produ... by Jerome Bruner

In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

knowing process answers

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.

structure understanding way

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understandin... by Jerome Bruner

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

educational understanding philosophy

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.

adults play children

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

learning teaching children

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-gen... by Jerome Bruner

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

agents self needs

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation by Jerome Bruner

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

learning teaching art

The fish will be the last to discover water. by Jerome Bruner

The fish will be the last to discover water.

inspirational water life

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.

adults teaching children

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. by Jerome Bruner

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

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