Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Jean Piaget More Quotes by Jean Piaget More Quotes From Jean Piaget As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. Jean Piaget knowstwoorder I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. Jean Piaget motherattitudereality The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. Jean Piaget statesmomentspast Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule. Jean Piaget selfgamescommon What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge. Jean Piaget next-leveldifferentroots As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. Jean Piaget adultspracticegames There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection. Jean Piaget uniquereligiouschildren The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves. Jean Piaget deep-watereyechildren Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. Jean Piaget logicalpsychologytaken In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. Jean Piaget developmentalepistemologypsychology Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled. Jean Piaget intelligentdiscoveryscience The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation. Jean Piaget cooperationneedsthinking The principle 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 discoverers. Jean Piaget 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 childeducationmenknowledge Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?' Jean Piaget questionanswernewplay Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. Jean Piaget childishenvironmentegoessence The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks. Jean Piaget childmoonsunmen 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 whateverownconstructionreason I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. Jean Piaget thinkalwaysproblemreading Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. Jean Piaget withoutbeingactivityintelligence
