Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget
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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
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The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.
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