Tag: Jean Piaget
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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.
Jean Piaget
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
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Play is the answer to the question, ‘How does anything new come about?’
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To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.
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I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
Jean Piaget
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Children’s games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules – that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
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Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
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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.
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget