Jean Piaget Quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Play is the work of childhood.”
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“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.”
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“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.”
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“Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.”
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“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
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“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
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“This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.”
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“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.”