Constructivism Quote by Allen W. Wood

As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the…

— Allen W. Wood

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem…

— Paul Johnson

“Constructivism views learning as a process in which the learner actively constructs or generates new ideas or concepts based upon current and past knowledge.”

— Lynne Schrum

That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according…

— Paul Watzlawick

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer…

— Rem Koolhaas

“The key principle of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is constructivism. Constructivism rejects old-fashioned rationalism: Knowledge is not made out of special knowledge-parts preformed in…

— Ulrich Müller

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question…

— Sigmund Freud

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“All of this is good but great teachers engineer learning experiences that maneuver the students into the driver's seat and then the teachers get…

— Anonymous

In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering…

— Steven Weinberg

“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what…

— Immanuel Kant

What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental…

— Ernst von Glasersfeld