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
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
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself. — 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
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. — 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 that one… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
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 Image
