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Jean Piaget Inspirational Quotes (39)

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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
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If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
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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.
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Play is the work of childhood.
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.
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Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
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It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.
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Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.
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Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
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Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.
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Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
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How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.
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When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
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Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
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The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.
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During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
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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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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
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The most developed science remains a continual becoming
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Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.
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What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.
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