Jerome Bruner Quotes
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
Brunner and B. F, Skinner were the two most preeminent learning psychologists of the day. They were intellectual opponents, but both agreed with this principle, Amazing demonstrations of this principle are available throughout history. However, apparently the cost to do it can be huge and as of 2012 there has been no overall success on a large scale of the general proposition. On the other hand, set theory has been taught to Junior High School students well, and calculus is taught in many American high schools. However. while there are these spectacular results, the American education system of the early 21st century has been unable to produce basic arithmetic and algebra skills in over 20 percent of the population.
Jerome Bruner, Psychologist, The Process of Education, 1960
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Traditional Islamic education of the time only dealt with the Koran but the skills of modern life, medicine, law, science were taught in the British secular schools, which Muslims generally would not attend. Kahn urged all is fellow Muslims to benefit from all forms of education.
In the entire Finnish curriculum there is only one standard test required and that is in the last year of high school. Finland graduates 93% of its high school students compared to the 76% in the U. S. And Finnish students score Number 1 among all nations, much higher on International Math and Science Tests than American Students of comparable age. Test taking skills should not be confused with education. Tests are one indicator of student performance and the success of our home and schools in educating children. But in some areas we have improved test scores slightly but provided less education.
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.
