Best Quotes by Jean Piaget (Top 10)

  1. 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; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
  2. 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.
  3. Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
  4. Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
  5. What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
  6. Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
  7. It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
  8. During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
  9. Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.
  10. The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers