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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Play is the work of childhood. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "