I have always detested any ...

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother\'s poor mental health.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
 Jean Piaget

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
 Jean Piaget
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
 Jean Piaget
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.
 Jean Piaget
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
 Jean Piaget
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.
 Jean Piaget