Jerome Bruner Quotes

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

Education made us what we are.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right attitude, we might become better, smarter versions of ourselves.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.