Jerome Bruner
An influential cognitive psychologist who made significant contributions to educational psychology, perception, and the study of narrative.
Quotes by 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.
Knowing is a process, not a product.
Education is not just about the transmission of culture, but about the transformation of culture.
The child is not a miniature adult, but a different kind of organism.
Learning is not a spectator sport.
The most important thing about education is that it should be interesting.
We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider historical problems, to engage in the act of discovery.
The mind is not a passive recipient of information, but an active constructor of reality.
Meaning is not given, but made.
Culture is not just a way of life, but a way of making sense of life.
The purpose of education is to create meaning.
Narrative is not just a way of telling stories, but a way of thinking.
The child's mind is not a blank slate, but a richly structured system.
Discovery, whether in the arts or sciences, is a matter of rearranging or transforming evidence in such a way that one is enabled to go beyond the evidence so reassembled to new insights.
The goal of education is not to fill the mind with facts, but to teach it how to think.
The human mind is not a computer, but a storyteller.
Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
The culture provides the tools for thinking, and thinking provides the means for transforming culture.
The essence of discovery is not to find new lands, but to see with new eyes.
The child's world is a world of action, not just perception.