Top 46 Quotes by Jean Piaget

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

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

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.

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

Play is the work of childhood.

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.

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.

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

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

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.