Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piagetwas a Swiss clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 August 1896
CityNeuchatel, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
humanity world littles
How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
psychology moments boundaries
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
inspirational education children
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
mean self expression
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.
children reality action
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.
compelled
We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
children understanding teach
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.
saving our-society violent
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
teacher mentor research
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
understanding
Experience precedes understanding.
codependent knows
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
children interesting mind
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new...
teaching mean creating
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
children real understanding
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.