Genetic Epistemology Quotes by Jean Piaget

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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…
• The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes…
• The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other…
• Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly,…
• The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more…
• 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…
• What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the…
• 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…

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