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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Jean Piaget Jean Piaget Piaget at the University of Michigan, c. 1968 Born Jean William Fritz Piaget (1896-08-09)9 August 1896 Neuchâtel, Switzerland Died 16 September 1980(1980-09-16) (aged 84) Geneva, Switzerland Fields Developmental psychology, epistemology Known for Constructivism, genetic epistemology, theory of cognitive development, object permanence, egocentrism Influences Immanuel Kant, Henri Bergson, Pierre Janet, James Mark Baldwin... Read full biography of Jean Piaget → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so... → 0 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. 0 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... → 0 Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. 0 Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. 0 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... → 0 In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely... → 0 Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. 0 To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. 0 This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. 0 The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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