Best quotes by Jean Piaget on Knowledge

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• ‟ The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

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• ‟ It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

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

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

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• ‟ To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

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• ‟ 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 instances, more rapidly.

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• ‟ Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

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• ‟ In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

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