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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.

— Jean Piaget The Right to Education in the Modern World (1948)

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Every observer has noted that the younger the child, the less sense he has of his own ego.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

Between the various types of rules which we shall give there will therefore be at once continuity of function and difference of structure.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

In real life the child is in the presence, not of isolated acts, but of personalities that attract or repel him as a global whole.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult.

The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)

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