Jean Piaget

“for example, to see whether in the developing subject, i.e. the child, integers are directly constructed starting from class logic by biunivocal…

— Jean Piaget

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

— Jean Piaget

Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and…

— Jean Piaget

Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.

— Jean Piaget

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

— Jean Piaget

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

— Jean Piaget

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

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

— Jean Piaget

Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which…

— Jean Piaget

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

— Jean Piaget

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

— Jean Piaget

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

— Jean Piaget