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Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
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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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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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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Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
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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.
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As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.
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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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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
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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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Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
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Play is the work of childhood.
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Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?
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If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
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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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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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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
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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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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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I could not think without writing.
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