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Jerome Bruner Quotes about Teaching

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Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Jerome Bruner
Children, Teaching, Cutting

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

Jerome Bruner
Children, Teaching, Learning

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Jerome Bruner
Art, Teaching, Learning
Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.78, Harvard University Press

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

Jerome Bruner
Children, Teaching, Adults
Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.117, Harvard University Press

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Jerome Bruner
Teacher, Teaching, Taste
Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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