Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piagetwas a Swiss clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology"...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 August 1896
CityNeuchatel, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
knowledge system
Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.
teaching mean creating
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
teacher mentor research
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
codependent knows
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
compelled
We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
independent mind pressure
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
invention
To understand is to invent.
static process instance
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
sensual logic mathematics
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
humanity world littles
How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
self law causes
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.
action individual abstraction
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
self world contact
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.
firsts tasks logic
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.