Jerome S. Bruner

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    It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.
    Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)

    It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

    The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
    —Jerome S. Bruner (b. 1915)