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

Quote by Jerome Bruner

Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

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On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

This book compiles a series of essays that delve into various philosophical and political concepts, offering insights and analyses from a distinctly left-wing viewpoint. more

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Jerome Bruner, born on October 1, 1915, and died on June 5, 2016, was a renowned psychologist from the United States. His research focused on the field of cognitive psychology, making significant contributions to the areas of child cognitive development, educational psychology, and cultural psychology. more

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“Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.”

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“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.”

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Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.”

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Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.”

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Book:In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978

Source: In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978

“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.”

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Book:The Process of Education, Revised Edition

Source: The Process of Education, Revised Edition

“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.”

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Book:The Culture of Education

Source: The Culture of Education

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.”