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" I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. "

" 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. "

" One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers. "

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

" Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. "

" With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct. "

" 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. "

" Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior. "

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

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

" Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 work of childhood. "