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.
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.
firsts tasks logic
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
roots next-level levels
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.
acquisition accommodations assimilation
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
practice games adults
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.
capable creating creativity critical education goal inventive men principal repeating schools simply women
The principal 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; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
actions individual time
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.