The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.
Jerome BrunerOrganizing 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.
Jerome BrunerWe are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Jerome BrunerPassion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
Jerome BrunerWe carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
Jerome Bruner