Jean Piaget quote: "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."

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz...
JEAN PIAGET

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by caus...
JEAN PIAGET

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm ...
JEAN PIAGET

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequate...
JEAN PIAGET

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay ...
JEAN PIAGET

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as ...
JEAN PIAGET

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learnin...
JEAN PIAGET

The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into th...
JEAN PIAGET

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, m...
JEAN PIAGET

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid...
JEAN PIAGET

Play is the work of childhood.
JEAN PIAGET

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the fe...
JEAN PIAGET

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly...
JEAN PIAGET

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is th...
JEAN PIAGET

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
JEAN PIAGET

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cra...
JEAN PIAGET

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherenc...
JEAN PIAGET

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology...
JEAN PIAGET

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
JEAN PIAGET

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of know...
JEAN PIAGET

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the socia...
JEAN PIAGET

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but ma...
JEAN PIAGET

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
JEAN PIAGET

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'
JEAN PIAGET

During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its ...
JEAN PIAGET

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all ...
JEAN PIAGET

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resist...
JEAN PIAGET

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becom...
JEAN PIAGET

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that...
JEAN PIAGET

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a c...
JEAN PIAGET

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poo...
JEAN PIAGET

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor me...
JEAN PIAGET

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, wher...
JEAN PIAGET

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the...
JEAN PIAGET

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as s...
JEAN PIAGET

Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.
JEAN PIAGET

“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”
JEAN PIAGET

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledg...
JEAN PIAGET

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
JEAN PIAGET

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
JEAN PIAGET

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not n...
JEAN PIAGET

Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for ins...
JEAN PIAGET

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialize...
JEAN PIAGET

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second ty...
JEAN PIAGET

We recall how, starting with purely practical and quasi-physiological groups, the child begins by el...
JEAN PIAGET

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
JEAN PIAGET

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
JEAN PIAGET

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into grou...
JEAN PIAGET

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of disco...
JEAN PIAGET

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND

A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN

The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND

Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
JEAN PAUL

The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
JEAN PAUL

To be adult is to be alone.
JEAN ROSTAND

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges...
JEAN GENET

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an...
JEAN COCTEAU

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
JEAN PAUL

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
JEAN PAUL

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
JEAN PAUL

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
JEAN PAUL

It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
JEAN ROSTAND

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must ...
JEAN COCTEAU

We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released.
JEAN HOUSTON

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
JEAN PAUL

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
JEAN ROSTAND

Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
JEAN PAUL

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
JEAN KERR

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls...
JEAN ROSTAND

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree...
JEAN COCTEAU

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you have...
JEAN KERR

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasp...
JEAN KERR

Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
JEAN ROSTAND

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
JEAN ROSTAND

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU

Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET

Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
JEAN COCTEAU

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
JEAN ROSTAND

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
JEAN GENET

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET

To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND

My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR

Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he inve...
JEAN ARP

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need schola...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Saintliness is also a temptation.
JEAN ANOUILH

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines ...
JEAN GENET

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.

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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.

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