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" 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. "

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

Jean Piaget

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Knowledge

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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. "

" 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. "

Jean Piaget

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Child

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

Jean Piaget

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Behavior

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Play is the work of childhood. "

" 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. "

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

Jean Piaget

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Knowing

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

" 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. "