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"33 Jean Piaget Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 August 1896. Died: 16 September 1980 | Psychologist |

I could not think without writing.

I Think Writing
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Play is the work of childhood.

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

Express Idea Knowledge Active
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Intelligence What Use Know
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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.

Goal Education Knowledge Child
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Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Play Answer How New
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Children Chance Development Knowledge
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Scientific Knowledge Evolution Changed
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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

Moral Rules Child Conduct
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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.

Life Manner Habits Education
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Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

Logical Activity Whole Intelligence
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Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Egocentrism Form Behaviour Individual
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All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

Morality System Rules Individual
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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.

Words Knowledge World Practical
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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Childish Ego Social Environment
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
What See Changes Know
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

Time Teaches Child Inventing
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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Logic Mathematics Linguistic Structures
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Reflective Abstraction Individual Actions
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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

Knowledge History Past Changing
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From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Moral View Child Destiny
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Knowing Reality Systems Transformations
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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Genetic Developmental Absolute Beginning
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Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Scientific Thought Momentary Process
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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.

Earliest Child Subject Actions
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The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Practice Narrative Argument Invention
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Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children Periods Play Exploration
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Experience precedes understanding.

Experience Precedes Understanding
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We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

We Learn Compelled Invent
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Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Education Saving Societies Collapse
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How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

Precious Humanity Rules World
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Mind Understanding Inventing Reality
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The most developed science remains a continual becoming

Developed Science Continual Becoming
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Jean Piaget Quotes & Sayings