Author: Jean Piaget

Quotes

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.

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

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

- Jean Piaget

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

- Jean Piaget

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

- Jean Piaget

Play is the work of childhood.

Play is the work of childhood.

- Jean Piaget

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

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

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.

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.

- Jean Piaget

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

- Jean Piaget

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

- Jean Piaget

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