13 February 2022

𝚿Week 2022-06: Jean Piaget - Collected Quotes

"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching." (Jean Piaget, "The Construction Of Reality In The Child", 1950)

"Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible." (Jean Piaget, "The Construction Of Reality In The Child", 1950)

"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. They are more or less isomorphic to transformations of reality. The transformational structures of which knowledge consists are not copies of the transformations in reality; they are simply possible isomorphic models among which experience can enable us to choose. Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate." (Jean Piaget, "Genetic Epistemology", 1968)

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality." (Jean Piaget, 1971)

"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." (Jean Piaget)

"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things." (Jean Piaget)

"We are constantly hatching an enormous number of false ideas, conceits, Utopias, mystical explanations, suspicions, and megalomaniacal fantasies, which disappear when brought into contact with other people." (Jean Piaget)

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