Childish Quote by Jean Piaget

“Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.” quote by Jean Piaget — Download Open image

“Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.”

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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

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“A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius,…

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If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

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Experience precedes understanding.

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Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

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“To expect a fact, is by definition to expect the isolated, it is for positivism, to prefer the ‘accident’ to the essential, the contingent…

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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

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The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one…

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As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

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For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted…

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