Jean Piaget Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.
Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child ... you can find out something new ...
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
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.
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
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.
From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.