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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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Jerome Bruner
Age: 100 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 1
Died: 2016
Died: June 5
Pedagogue
Psychologist
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New York City
New York
Jerome Seymour Bruner
Jerome S. Bruner
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