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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

~Jerome Bruner

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: October 1st, 1915

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