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Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.
Jerome Bruner
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Jerome Bruner
Age: 100 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 1
Died: 2016
Died: June 5
Pedagogue
Psychologist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Jerome Seymour Bruner
Jerome S. Bruner
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Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.
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