"On the one hand, there are individual actions……" — Jean Piaget
"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects."
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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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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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