9 quotes by Jean Piaget

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

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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.” — Jean Piaget

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“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

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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.” — Jean Piaget

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

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“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

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

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

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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.” — Jean Piaget

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