Jean Piaget Quotes

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

Education, Women, Men

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Jean Piaget

Education, Best, Knowledge

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget

Material, Becomes, Resists

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

Knowledge, Strong, Human

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.
Jean Piaget

History, Knowledge, Past

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

Health, Attitude, Mother

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget

Nothing, Taken, Logical

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, Made, Problem

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget

Individual, Actions, However

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Jean Piaget

Self, Same, Action

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

Knowledge, Human, Same

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

Child, Himself, Actions

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.
Jean Piaget

Time, Universe, Space

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

Beginning, Psychology, Genetic

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget

Knowledge, Self, Words

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget

Reality, Means, Knowing

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

Nothing, Logic, Linguistic

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

Time, Give, Individual

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

Knowledge, Next, Scientific

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

Thought, Process, Scientific

The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
Jean Piaget

Simple, Sense, Second

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, Between, Subject

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 9, 1896

Died: September 16, 1980

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