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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

" Play is the work of childhood. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Jean Piaget

Individual

Behavior

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Jean Piaget

Evolution

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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