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.
Jerome BrunerBeing able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
Jerome BrunerEducation 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 BrunerThe 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 Bruner