Best Jean Piaget Quotes
- Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. Inspirational
- True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a… Activity
- Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. Accommodation
- During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience. Accommodation
- The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what… Capable
- It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. Best
- This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. Construction
- Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. Account
- Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Linguistic
- Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. Adequately
- I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. Always Detested
- Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. Abstraction
- Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is… Epistemology
- The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance… Annoyance
- I could not think without writing. Inspirational
- What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Changes
- Play is the answer to how anything new comes about. Answer
- Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. Intellectual
- Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it… Child
- When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. Away Forever
- The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this… Abstraction
- On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the… Abstraction
- From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject… Aggregate
- The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done… Capable