"Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence,……" — Jean Piaget
"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 revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled."
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49 Quotes by Jean Piaget
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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among…
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The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating…
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Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them…
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The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods…
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Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is…
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What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following…
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
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The most developed science remains a continual becoming
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Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . .…
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If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form…
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact…
— George Washington
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will…
— Samuel Johnson
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both…
— Harry S. Truman
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down…
— Ruth Benedict
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