1. Introduction
Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University.
There are some rare and wondrous occasions in reading when one has
a tremendous sense of the presence of power, the feeling that there
is some very special significance in the pages… Here is a book
about the educational process, hardly a subject to make banners
float in the sky or to call forth a choir of angels. Here is a book
by a psychologist writing about the nature of learning, the
structure of knowledge, and the means by which the former is
engaged and the latter is acquired. Yet this book can be read twice
in a week, will keep the television set dark, and will neutralize
the lure of a late summer’s night… That he writes on occasion with
the touch of a poet is the reader’s good fortune; that he reasons
with the scientist’s secure modesty makes his vision
understandable… [Bruner] has written a useful, satisfying, and, for
me, a very exciting book.
*Saturday Review*
This is an epochal book in that long tradition of writing on
education which goes back at least to the Phoenix episode in Book
Nine of the Iliad, where Homer introduces the old tutor whose job
it was to teach the young Achilles to be ‘a doer of deeds and a
speaker of words.’ The Process of Education gives accurate
expression to the current ferment in educational thought in this
country, lays to rest the ghosts of some outmoded approaches, and
provides an exciting discussion of the direction educational theory
and research should now take… The main point, around which
revealing flashes of insight and a series of brilliant suggestions
cluster, is that any subject must be taught in a way that
constantly reveals its underlying structure…[and] that no topic is
intrinsically too difficult to be presented honestly in some form
to the young.
*Commonweal*
A seminal work…on learning theory, readiness, structure, intuitive
and analytical thinking, which grew out of the Woods Hole
conference of 1959 on curriculum reform (of which Dr. Bruner was
chairman).
*Los Angeles Times*
[A] gem of a book.
*New York Herald Tribune*
Ranks as one of the most important and influential works on
education.
*Fortune*
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