Experience precedes understanding.

- Jean Piaget

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…

- Jean Piaget

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

- Jean Piaget

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…

- Jean Piaget

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

- Jean Piaget

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

- Jean Piaget

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 …

- Jean Piaget

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

- 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…

- Jean Piaget