Swiss - Psychologist | August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
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I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.
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One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
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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.
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To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
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Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
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Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
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The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
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