126 Quotes by Jean Piaget

Play is the work of childhood.

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?

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.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration.

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

The most developed science remains a continual becoming.

So we must start from this dual nature of intelligence as something both biological and logical.