Jean Piaget quotes - page 4

The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. (Jean Piaget)
It is somewhat humiliating, in this connection, to see how heavily traditional education sets about the task of making spelling enter into brains that assimilate with such ease the mnemonic contents of the game of marbles. But then, memory is dependent upon activity, and a real activity presupposes interest. View quote
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When the child comes to draw things as he sees them, it will be precisely because he has given up taking isolated objects in and for themselves and has begun to construct real systems of relations which take account of the true perspective in which things are connected. View quote
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In real life the child is in the presence, not of isolated acts, but of personalities that attract or repel him as a global whole. View quote
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There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. View quote
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From the intellectual point of view, he mingles his own fantasies with accepted opinions, whence arise pseudo lies (or sincere lies), syncretism, and all the features of child thought. View quote
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The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them. View quote
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Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. View quote
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New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy. View quote
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Egocentrism in so far as it means confusion of the ego and the external world, and egocentrism in so far as it means lack of cooperation, constitute one and the same phenomenon. View quote
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It is obvious that after more or less brief periods of submission, during which he accepts every verdict, even those that are wrong, he will begin to feel the injustice of it all. (Jean Piaget)
It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world. View quote
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One must have felt a real desire to exchange thoughts with others in order to discover all that a lie can involve. View quote
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The spirit of the command having failed to be assimilated, the letter alone remains. View quote
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There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. View quote
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There are therefore three types of behavior: motor behavior, egocentric behavior (with external constraint), and cooperation. View quote
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The notion of good, which generally speaking, appears later than the notion of pure duty, particularly in the case of the child, is perhaps the final conscious realization of something that is the primary condition of the moral life - the need for reciprocal affection. View quote
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When the child imitates the rules practiced by his older companions he feels that he is submitting to an unalterable law. View quote
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But not every habit will give rise to the knowledge of a rule. The habit must first be frustrated, and the ensuing conflict must lead to an active search for the habitual. View quote
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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. View quote
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. (Jean Piaget)
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. View quote
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Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. View quote
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I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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