Child Quotes by Jean Piaget

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me…

— Jean Piaget

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

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

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

— Jean Piaget

“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

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

— Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

— Jean Piaget

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

— Jean Piaget

“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

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

— Jean Piaget

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

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

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

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

“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