25 Best Jean Piaget Quotes

25 Best Jean Piaget Quotes

Jean Piaget Quotes:

 

 

1.”The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.”

– Jean Piaget

2.”The principal 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

3.”Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”

– Jean Piaget

4.”The child is not a miniature adult; the child’s mind is not a miniature adult mind.”

– Jean Piaget

 

 

5.”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.”

– Jean Piaget

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

– Jean Piaget

7.”The child’s development follows a path of successive stages of independence, and our knowledge of this must inform our approach to discipline.”

– Jean Piaget

8.”The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

– Jean Piaget

9.”What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”

–  Jean Piaget

 

 

10.”The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe.”

– Jean Piaget

11.”Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

– Jean Piaget

12.”The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies.”

– Jean Piaget

13.”The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.”

– Jean Piaget

14.”The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone’s actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral – in a word, that there is a Universal Order.”

Jean Piaget

 

 

15.”Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.”

– Jean Piaget

16.”In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.”

– Jean Piaget

17.”To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.”

– Jean Piaget

18.”I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.”

– Jean Piaget

19.”To reason logically is so to link one’s propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one’s own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.”

– Jean Piaget

 

 

20.”Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.”

– Jean Piaget

21.”The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.

– Jean Piaget

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

– Jean Piaget

23.”On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.”

– Jean Piaget

24.”From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.”

– Jean Piaget

 

 

25.’During the first few months of an infant’s life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.”

– Jean Piaget

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