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1 " I could not think without writing. "
― Jean Piaget
2 " 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; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. "
3 " Play is the work of childhood. "
4 " Psychology, in fact, repre-sents the juncture of two opposite directions of are still insufficient. In the science of human be- scientific thought that are dialectically comple-mentary. It follows that the system of sciencescannot be arranged in a linear order, as manypeople beginning with Auguste Comte have at-tempted to arrange them. "
5 " Creo que hay que temer mucho al hecho de que solo encontremos natural aquello a que estamos habituados, aquello que nos ha condicionado parcialmente. Lo que le parece natural al profesor no coincide ni con una evidencia peculiar de las matemáticas ni con la evidencia del alumno. "
― Jean Piaget , La enseñanza de las matematicas
6 " Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. "
7 " What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. "
8 " Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely. "
9 " Play is the answer to how anything new comes about. "
10 " Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation. "
― Jean Piaget , The Psychology of Intelligence
11 " The individual acts only if he experiences a need, i.e., if the equilibrium between the environment and the organism is momentarily upset, and action tends to re-establish the equilibrium, i.e., to re-adapt the organism (Claparède). "
12 " Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée "
13 " Every structure is to be thought of as a particular form of equilibrium, more or less stable within its restricted field and losing its stability on reaching the limits of the field. "
14 " intelligence, the most plastic and at the same time the most durable structural equilibrium of behaviour, is essentially a system of living and acting operations. "
15 " I know some very intelligent philosophers, not at all dogmatic, who believe that “science” cannot introduce the concept of finality in the analysis and explanation of vital processes, but that “philosophy” equally cannot arrive at an adequate concept of organic life without introducing finality. It is not a question here of moral or other values, but rather of a concept peculiar to philosophical biology as opposed to biology. Indeed, one such philosopher concluded, drawing inspiration from Merleau-Ponty, that science can “never” give an adequate explanation of the concept of the “whole structure” of the organism. "
― Jean Piaget , Insights and Illusions of Philosophy: Selected Works Vol 9
16 " theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an “accident,” as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a “fact” because Newton asked certain questions. "
17 " According to Claparède, feelings appoint a goal for behaviour, while intelligence merely provides the means (the "technique"). But there exists an awareness of ends as well as of means, and this continually modifies the goals of action. "
18 " to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa. "
19 " A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.). "
20 " We shall simply say then that every action involves an energetic or affective aspect and a structural or cognitive aspect, which, in fact, unites the different points of view already mentioned. "
