“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.”
Quote by Jerome Bruner
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Jerome Bruner
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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