126 Quotes by Jean Piaget

How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new...

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

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

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration