Quotes from Jerome Bruner

You went to somewhere to do something with an anticipated goal in mind, something you couldn't do elsewhere and be the same Self.

Contrary to common sense there is no unique "real world" that pre-exists and is independent of human mental activity and human symbolic language; that which we call the world is a product of some mind whose symbolic procedures construct the world.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.