Quotation series: Instruction II

Another great quote on instruction:

"Just as concepts and theory serve to connect the facts of observation and experiment in the conventional disciplines of knowledge, so the great dramatic themes and metaphors provide a basis for organizing one’s sense of man, for seeing what is persistent in his history and his condition, for introducing some unity into the scatter of our knowledge as it relates to ourselves."

• Bruner, J. S. (1966). Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Pg. 163.

Quotation series: Instruction

This is just a nice quote I found and wanted to share with others:

"Discovering how to make something comprehensible to the young is only a continuation of making something comprehensible to ourselves in the first place—that understanding and aiding others to understand are both of a piece."

• Bruner, J. S. (1966). Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Pg. 38.