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

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

Jerome Bruner quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Jerome Bruner quotes: Knowledge is justified belief.

Knowledge is justified belief.

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

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

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

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

Jerome Bruner quotes: 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.

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.

Jerome Bruner quotes: Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one's experiences.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one's experiences.

Jerome Bruner quotes: In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Jerome Bruner quotes: In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

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

Jerome Bruner quotes: Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Jerome Bruner quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Jerome Bruner quotes: Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

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

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

The fish will be the last to discover water.

Jerome Bruner quotes: We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Jerome Bruner quotes: Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

Jerome Bruner quotes: Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Jerome Bruner quotes: Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

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

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

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

Jerome Bruner quotes: Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Jerome Bruner quotes: Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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

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