"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."

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Source : The Process of Education (p. 14)

Jerome Bruner

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Coins Quotes

“The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play.... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.”
“We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.”
“As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.”
“Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.”
“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.”
“But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny...”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.58
“BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.”
“Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.”

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