Play is the work of childhood..

True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary ….

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from re….

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from unde….

The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mista….

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience..

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual..

To understand is to invent..

The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to app….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….