Childhood Quote by Jean Piaget

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

— Jean Piaget

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

— Jean Piaget

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

— Jean Piaget

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep…

— Jean Piaget

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

— Anonymous

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

— Maria Montessori

“The discovery of the little child is that he is the only one to see what is. While the adults, the scholars, the experts,…

— Grothendieck [ FA ] Alexander

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds,…

— Jean Piaget

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children…

— Lynne Cheney

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to…

— Ellen Key

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller