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Jean Piaget Quotes

Swiss - Psychologist | August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations.

Child Parents Language Playing Even

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.

Education Knowledge Men New Things

Play is the work of childhood.

Work Childhood Play

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.

Education Women Men New Things Doing

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Mathematics Logic Nothing Structures

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.

Men Mountains Child Sun Moon Out

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

Play New Question Anything Answer

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

Argument Real Reasoning Logical

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Ego Environment Childish Social

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Knowledge Day Evolution One Day Next

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

Life Age Children Respect Rules

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.

Child Universe Rules Moral Three

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