Jerome Bruner

“The concept of prime numbers is a human invention... The world is not sitting out there with dots on it.”

“Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.”

“A culture is constantly in the process of being recreated as it is interpreted and renegotiated by its members.”

“We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider matters as an historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge-getting.”

“The good teacher is one who helps the child to think for himself.”

“Self-esteem is not a cause, but a consequence.”

“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”

“Knowing is a process, not a product.”

“The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.”

“We are storytellers. We make reality.”

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.”

“Children, like the rest of us, are human beings, and they can be given the respect due to a human being.”

“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.”

“The language of education is the language of culture.”