The principal goal of ...

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