"Each time one prematurely teaches a child something……" — 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 it completely."
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Jean Piaget
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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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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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