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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Jean Piaget
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Jean Piaget
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 9
Died: 1980
Died: September 16
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Jean William Fritz Piaget
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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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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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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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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
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Experience precedes understanding.
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Play is the work of childhood.
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Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
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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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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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During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
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I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
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We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
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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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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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When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
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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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Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
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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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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
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