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.
Jerom Bruner
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In time, and as one comes to ...
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.
Jerom Bruner
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The agentive mind is not only...
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.
Jerom Bruner
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Passion, like discriminating ...
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
Jerom Bruner
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The essence of creativity is ...
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.
Jerom Bruner
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"Thinking about thinking" has...
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
Jerom Bruner
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Good teaching is forever bein...
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
Jerom Bruner
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We carry with us habits of th...
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
Jerom Bruner
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We are storytelling creatures...
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Jerom Bruner
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I would urge that the yeast o...
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.
Jerom Bruner
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Surely knowledge of the natur...
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.
Jerom Bruner
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There is, perhaps, one univer...
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.
Jerom Bruner
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Grasping the structure of a s...
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.
Jerom Bruner
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The main characteristic of pl...
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.
Jerom Bruner
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Knowledge is justified belief...
Knowledge is justified belief.
Jerom Bruner
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We begin with the hypothesis ...
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.
Jerom Bruner
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It is sentimentalism to assum...
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 child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.
Jerom Bruner
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Being able to "go beyond the ...
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
Jerom Bruner
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The shrewd guess, the fertile...
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.
Jerom Bruner
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One seeks to equip the child ...
One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
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