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

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

- Jerome Bruner

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

- 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

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

- Jerome Bruner

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

- 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.

- Jerome Bruner

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

- Jerome Bruner