Jean Piaget

“Nel, after throwing a stone onto a sloping bank watching the stone rolling said, 'Look at the stone. It's afraid of the…

— Jean Piaget

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent…

— Jean Piaget

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective…

— Jean Piaget

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow…

— Jean Piaget

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and…

— Jean Piaget

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

— Jean Piaget

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect…

— Jean Piaget

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and…

— Jean Piaget

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,…

— Jean Piaget

“for example, to see whether in the developing subject, i.e. the child, integers are directly constructed starting from class logic by biunivocal…

— Jean Piaget

The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain…

— Jean Piaget

The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual…

— Jean Piaget

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as…

— Jean Piaget

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

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not…

— Jean Piaget

If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of…

— Jean Piaget

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how…

— Jean Piaget

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

— Jean Piaget

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing…

— Jean Piaget

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

— Jean Piaget

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise…

— Jean Piaget

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay…

— Jean Piaget

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

— Jean Piaget

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not…

— Jean Piaget

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly,…

— Jean Piaget

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first…

— Jean Piaget

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the…

— Jean Piaget

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his…

— Jean Piaget

“Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la…

— Jean Piaget

What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the…

— Jean Piaget

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

“theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an “accident,” as in…

— Jean Piaget