Jean Piaget Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Jean Piaget quotes and sayings (psychologist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.”
“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
“Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.”
“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”
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