Jerome Bruner Quotes
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
Bruner, Jerome. The Culture of Education. Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 88.
This quotation illustrates one side of a major issue in modern education. Wilkins emphasizes the importance of the specific content taught while others argue that there is great dissention in the nation on exactly what should be taught and national agreement is impossible and we cannot predict the future to determine what content will necessarily be needed. However, they argue that it is the critical thinking skill and technique and that is most important irrespective of content.
Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. He taught and did research at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New York University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
