If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition..

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

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an a….

Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual pe….

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

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do..

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible..

I could not think without writing..

The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one r….

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men wh….

Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but t….

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of….

There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It ….

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see..

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education m….

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

If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our….

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

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other ….

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered..

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration.