Quote

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.

Jean Piaget

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Piaget
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 9
Died: 1980
Died: September 16
Biologist
Logician
Malacologist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Psychologist
University Teacher
Zoologist
Neuchâtel
NE
Jean William Fritz Piaget
Tasks
Method
Teaching
Heavier
Becomes
Methods
Difficult
Apply
School
Improve
Better
Schools
Trying
Task

More quotes by Jean Piaget

Image
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.
Jean Piaget
Image
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget
Image
I could not think without writing.
Jean Piaget
Image
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.
Jean Piaget
Image
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
Jean Piaget
Image
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.
Jean Piaget
Image
If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
Jean Piaget
Image
We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
Jean Piaget
Image
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.
Jean Piaget
Image
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget
Image
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.
Jean Piaget
Image
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.
Jean Piaget
Image
Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
Jean Piaget
Image
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.
Jean Piaget
Image
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
Jean Piaget
Image
Experience precedes understanding.
Jean Piaget
Image
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.
Jean Piaget
Image
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
Image
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget
Image
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