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

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

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I could not think without writing.

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

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Play is the work of childhood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for...

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

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

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All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in t...

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

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

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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning ha...

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

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Jean Piaget

Psychologist

Born: 1896-08-09

Died: 1980-09-16

Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist, famous for his work with children and his theory of cognitive development.More