Jerome Bruner

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

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.

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

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

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

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

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

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.