Jerome Bruner Quotes

Being able to go beyond the information given to figure things out is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you ought to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

~ Jerome Bruner

In sum, then, thinking about thinking has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

~ Jerome Bruner

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

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.

~ Jerome Bruner