"The 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."

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Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Jerome Bruner

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“Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.”
“INTO THE WILD was a lot of fun, but challenging, 'cause you can get lost in the movement.”
“Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.”
“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet.”
“A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.”
“It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.”
“The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.”

Source : "Alan Grayson Strikes Back". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.newsweek.com. November 28, 2011.
“False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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