Jean Piaget Quotes

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• Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its…
• The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an…
• The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men…
• Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them…
• The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are…
• Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
• During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own…
• What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including…
• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
• Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
• The most developed science remains a continual becoming
• Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and…
• If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
• Play is the work of childhood.
• Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable…
• Experience precedes understanding.
• Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover…
• Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration
• To understand is to invent.
• In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical…

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