Jerome Seymour Bruner Famous Quotes



"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."


Jerome Seymour Bruner Quotations






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What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)"
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