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
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the… — 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
“Piaget is also concerned with attempts of Maine de Biran, Bergson, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to construct a philosophical psychology as opposed to… — 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
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“This new philosophical psychology can in this respect be traced back to Maine de Biran, for even if in his time scientific… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — 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
