"Children have real understanding only of that which……" — 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 them from reinventing it themselves."
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49 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…
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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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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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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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