One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego. From the intellectual point… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. — Jean Piaget Copy Share
“A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning. — Jean Piaget Copy Share
“To expect a fact, is by definition to expect the isolated, it is for positivism, to prefer the ‘accident’ to the essential, the contingent… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. — Jean Piaget Copy Share
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
“I know some very intelligent philosophers, not at all dogmatic, who believe that “science” cannot introduce the concept of finality in the analysis and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share
