Tag: Jean Piaget
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I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.
Jean Piaget
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To reason logically is so to link one’s propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one’s own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
Jean Piaget
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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.
Jean Piaget
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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
Jean Piaget
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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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Play is the work of childhood.
Jean Piaget
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The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
Jean Piaget
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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.
Jean Piaget
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The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone’s actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral – in a word, that there is a Universal Order.
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