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.
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… - Jerome Bruner
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…
- Jerome Bruner
In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product. - Jerome Bruner
In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.
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 ch… - Jerome Bruner
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 ch…
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form. - Jerome Bruner
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. - Jerome Bruner
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence. - Jerome Bruner
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. - Jerome Bruner
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
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
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.
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education. - Jerome Bruner
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
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