Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent… — 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
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past… — 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
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
