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.

and Ratner N. Value and need as organizing factors in perception. Meaningful language is acquired in the context of meaningful parent-infant interaction learning “scaffolded” or supported by the child’s Language Acquisition Support System (LASS).

A. from Harvard University in 1941. Jerome Seymour Bruner (born October 1 1915) is a psychologist who has made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology as well as to history and to the general philosophy of education.