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The student will take his activity more to heart if his work supplies and, above all, the result of his efforts belong to him.
The Right to Education in the Modern World (1948)
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
There are therefore three types of behavior: motor behavior, egocentric behavior (with external constraint), and cooperation.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
This, of course, does not prevent some rules from containing more than others an element of rationality, thus corresponding to the deepest fundamental constants of human nature.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
In other words the true solipsist has no idea of self. There is no self: there is the world.
The First Year of Life of the Child (1927)
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
The motor rule. In its beginnings the motor rule merges into habit.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Genetic Epistemology (1968)
Every thought that enters the head of a child of 2-3 does so from the first in the form of a belief and not in the form of a hypothesis to be verified.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
The intentionality peculiar to motor activity is not a search for truth but the pursuit of a result, whether objective or subjective; and to succeed is not to discover a truth.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
It is obvious that after more or less brief periods of submission, during which he accepts every verdict, even those that are wrong, he will begin to feel the injustice of it all.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
There are in existence two distinct ideas of justice. We say that an award is unjust when it penalizes the innocent, rewards the guilty, or when, in general, it fails to be meted out in exact proportion to the merit or guilt in question.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
To perceive is to construct intellectually, and if the child draws things as he conceives them, it is certainly because he cannot perceive them without conceiving them.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
It is when the child is accustomed to act from the point of view of those around him, when he tries to please rather than to obey, that he will judge in terms of intentions.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
Babies are, then, obviously narcissistic, but not in the way adults are, not even Spinoza's God, and I am a little afraid that Freud sometimes forgets that the narcissistic baby has no sense of self.
The First Year of Life of the Child (1927)
When the child comes to draw things as he sees them, it will be precisely because he has given up taking isolated objects in and for themselves and has begun to construct real systems of relations which take account of the true perspective in which things are connected.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.
The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
Conversations with Jean Piaget (1980)