Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will….

Experience precedes understanding..

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

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are n….

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….

The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and ….

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 ….

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible..

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions..

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

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 me….

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….

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning..

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

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers….

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….

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

As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect ent….

To understand is to invent..

Play is the work of childhood..

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many i….