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" From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny. "

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" To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition. "

" 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. "

" The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. "

" I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. "

" Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. "

" Play is the work of childhood. "

" 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. "

" To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. "

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

" Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. "

" The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. "

" 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. "

" It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. "

" Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. "

" 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. "

" Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. "

" 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. "

" During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. "

" Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. "

" The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. "

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

" 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. "

" In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. "

" The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. "

" All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules. "

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