The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more… — 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
