Jean Piaget Quotes

‘The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Play is the work of childhood.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.’ – Jean Piaget

‘Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.’ – Jean Piaget

‘It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.’ – Jean Piaget

‘This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.’ – Jean Piaget

‘The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.’ – Jean Piaget