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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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "