Quotes of Jean Piaget - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ I could not think without writing. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. ”

- 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

“ During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience. ”

- 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. ”

- 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

“ Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. ”

- 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

“ Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. ”

- 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. ”

- Jean Piaget
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