Bruner believes that school education is a particularly important tool for the development of intellectual skills. Therefore, education should pay attention to students' skills in dealing with things, observing and imagining objective things and completing symbolic operations, especially when these skills are related to various technologies that make them play a great role in human cultural expression. He believes that school education should include the following five goals:

First of all, schools should encourage students to discover the value of their guesses and the possibility of improvement, discover the availability of their first approximation in the process of discussing a problem, and know the activation of their experiments and various assumptions, even though those assumptions may be wrong at first glance.

The second main goal of the school should be to cultivate students' confidence in answering questions with "thoughts". In order to gain this confidence, students need to develop all kinds of understanding, which is based on one's only knowledge of how to acquire and improve. For example, "When teaching history, we should teach students all kinds of methods that historians use to carry out their work and the kind of working knowledge that makes assumptions ....."

Bruner believes that the third goal of education is to cultivate students' self-motivation and guide them to use various topics alone. It is necessary to determine the form of the problem, so that students can directly deal with the topics they must master, face the materials, and practice to become problem-finding and problem-solving people. That is, students participate in deciding when they are right, when they are wrong, when and to what extent, whether the materials are suitable or not.

The fourth goal of the school should be to cultivate the idea of economic utilization. Teachers should encourage learners to have an internal motivation to find relevance and structure. The driving force in this clock is that students have a greater tendency to stop the initial impression on the surface and look for something less obvious but more effective under the surface, that is, to think.

The fifth goal of education is to cultivate intellectual loyalty. This loyalty includes students' desire to use instruments and materials of a certain subject to check and correct their own problem-solving methods, ideas and viewpoints. Students can and should learn to evaluate the performance of knowledge loyalty that may be acquired in different disciplines.