Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. Jean Piaget More Quotes by Jean Piaget More Quotes From 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. Jean Piaget educationinspirationalchildren We learn more when we are compelled to invent. Jean Piaget compelled 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. Jean Piaget actionchildrenreality To understand is to invent. Jean Piaget inventionscience Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible. Jean Piaget autonomypunishmentimpossible Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Jean Piaget philosophyhistoryart I could not think without writing. Jean Piaget writingthinking It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires. Jean Piaget eyelongchildren How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world. Jean Piaget humanitylittlesworld I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology. Jean Piaget psychologymomentsboundaries The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. Jean Piaget building-upunderstandingreality The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it. Jean Piaget sacrificeselfchildren Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. Jean Piaget would-beimpossiblereality Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Jean Piaget logicmathematicssensual The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. Jean Piaget elementsstresschildren This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. Jean Piaget supportstrongmean Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy. Jean Piaget balancechildrenlooks The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply. Jean Piaget teachingtryingschool Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. Jean Piaget psychologytransitionviews Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. Jean Piaget staticinstanceprocess
