Jerome Bruner quotes

Jerome Bruner was an influential American psychologist, renowned for his work in cognitive psychology and education. His theories emphasized the importance of active learning and the role of culture in shaping the mind. He played a key role in developing educational practices that focus on discovery and understanding rather than rote memorization. Here are 7 of his quotes:

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Jerome Bruner

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.

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

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

Jerome Bruner

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

Jerome Bruner

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.

Jerome Bruner