Jean Piaget

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 discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

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

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 generations have done.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

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