126 Quotes by Jean Piaget

I could not think without writing.

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; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée

In fact, objects are known only through the subject, while the subject can know himself or her- self only by acting on objects materially and mentally. Indeed, if objects are innumerable and science indefinitely diverse, all knowledge of the subject brings us back to psychology, the science of the subject and the subject's actions.

Knowledge is not predetermined by heredity; it is not predetermined in the things around us - in knowing things around him the subject always adds to them.

Psychology, in fact, repre-sents the juncture of two opposite directions of are still insufficient. In the science of human be- scientific thought that are dialectically comple-mentary. It follows that the system of sciencescannot be arranged in a linear order, as manypeople beginning with Auguste Comte have at-tempted to arrange them.

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.

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

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.