29 Jean Piaget Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jean Piaget

Swiss Psychologist

Born: Aug 9, 1896

Died: Sep 16, 1980

Becomes Education Individual Knowledge Logical Own

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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

Education Knowledge Men Invent New Things Increase Possibilities New Doing Discover Goal Child Capable Create Who Amount Things

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

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. Jean Piaget

You Learning Intelligence Situation Neither Particular Know Nor Use Prepared

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. Jean Piaget

Ego Childish Environment Between Essence Inability Social Differentiate

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Jean Piaget

Mathematics Nothing Logic Structures Linguistic Specialised

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?' Jean Piaget

About New Come Answer Does How Question Anything Play

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. Jean Piaget

Intelligence Logical Particularly Without Intelligent Being Whole Activity

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

Assurance Extreme Striking Finds About Most His Subjects Child Things

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

Knowledge Problem Made Our Point Higher Point Of View Genetic Judged How Psychology Explain Transition Lower Epistemology View Level

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct. Jean Piaget

During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. Jean Piaget

Life Education First Few Months Must Imperative Laying Habits Head Taking Becomes Pillow Infant Begin Cradle Etc Manner Why

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior. Jean Piaget

Behavior Purely Individual Between Form Us Intermediate Appears Socialized

I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers. Jean Piaget

Conversation Aim About Something Wrong Underlying Answers Discovering Subjects Questioning Psychiatric After Engage Reasoning Right

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. Jean Piaget

Problem More Smaller Instead Between New Invites Annoyance Becomes Subject Familiar Avoided Gap Novelty Searching Differentiated

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

Construction Whatever Own Other Logically Rate Adopted Contain Judgments Demonstrate Link Itself Any Order Succeeding Should Reason Exposition Each

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. Jean Piaget

Problem Reading Before Think About Like Always

Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own. Jean Piaget

Game Own Extremely Say Complex Rules Complex System System Admirable Constitute Laws Instance Contains Institutions Most Boy Jurisprudence Children Social Social Institutions Games Code Marbles Played

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order. Jean Piaget

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life. Jean Piaget

Life Respect Age Important Marked Everyone Rules Feature Knows Impulse Children Form Social Themselves Paid Social Life Regulations Groups Play

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

Beginning Too Absolute Never Developmental Genetic Psychology Epistemology

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. Jean Piaget

Thought Static Instance Scientific Process Then Momentary

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