"Play is the answer to how anything new…" — Jean Piaget

"Play is the answer to how anything new comes about."

— 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…
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among…
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating…
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them…
The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods…
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is…
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following…
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
The most developed science remains a continual becoming
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . .…

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The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
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