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Jean Piaget Quotes

Jean Piaget quotes

Swiss Psychologist August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980

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Jean Piaget quote: "I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude..."
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. 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
The principle 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
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
Jean Piaget quote: "This means that no single logic is strong enough to support..."
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget quote: "Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds..."
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. Jean Piaget
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
Jean Piaget quote: "What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we..."
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Jean Piaget
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
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. Jean Piaget
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
Jean Piaget quote: "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that..."
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. Jean Piaget
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
Jean Piaget quote: "I could not think without writing."
I could not think without writing. Jean Piaget
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

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