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Experience precedes understanding.

Jean Piaget

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Jean Piaget
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 9
Died: 1980
Died: September 16
Biologist
Logician
Malacologist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Psychologist
University Teacher
Zoologist
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Jean William Fritz Piaget
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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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Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
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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.
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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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