Tag: Jean Piaget
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget
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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.
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 child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.
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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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
Jean Piaget