"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education. Jerome Bruner More Quotes by Jerome Bruner More Quotes From Jerome Bruner 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 turns benefits anticipation 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. Jerome Bruner literacy becoming way 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. Jerome Bruner laziness education school Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like Jerome Bruner simple identity thinking There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance. Jerome Bruner class men memories Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences. Jerome Bruner empty space lonely Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in mind? That master question is threefold: what, to whom, and how? Education research, under such a dispensation, becomes an adjunct of educational planning and design. It becomes design research in the sense that it explores possible ways in which educational objectives can be formulated and carried out in the light of cultural objectives and values in the broad. Jerome Bruner design educational light We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher. Jerome Bruner taste teaching teacher Knowledge is justified belief. Jerome Bruner educational literature philosophy Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture. Jerome Bruner apollo writing culture 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. Jerome Bruner loss memories ideas Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. Jerome Bruner passion use feelings I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence. Jerome Bruner education ideas school 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. Jerome Bruner effort real art In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. Jerome Bruner characteristics recognition perception Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. Jerome Bruner organisms stimulus indifferent Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight. Jerome Bruner education men past We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones. Jerome Bruner effort self doe We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before. Jerome Bruner education inspirational men One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. Jerome Bruner more child knowing world
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