35 Quotes by Jerome S. 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.

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.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

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.

Knowledge is justified belief.

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.

Being able to “go beyond the information” given to “figure things out” is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.