From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny. Jean Piaget Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. Jean Piaget Read Quote
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. Jean Piaget Read Quote
The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical. Jean Piaget Read Quote
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 Read 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. Jean Piaget Read Quote
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. Jean Piaget Read Quote